Every year, National Geographic holds a contest for photo of the year. Usually, it is a nature, historical site or humanities based photograph that wins, but there have been some notable exceptions. Every time the contest is open, the best photographers in the world submit photographs in hopes of winning.
Because of the level of talent involved, there are tons of great submissions. Check out these 40 amazing submissions!
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