Some of those pictures are incredible. But I came for the boobies, and I'm leaving disappointed.

WTF is with #7? NG has gone in the shiatter with crap like this.

Dugs or GTFO.

mr_a: Needs more animals/nature, less freaks.

I don't know. Zombie girl looks like the good kind of freaky.
/No, the one on the left you freak!

#3: Holy shiat the giant jellyfish is coming to eat the sun!

bim1154: WTF is with #7? NG has gone in the shiatter with crap like this.

Number six also. Until reading the caption I thought it was rednecks getting
opossum for supper.

Burn shrike, didn't you notice the cock on that zebra?

bim1154: WTF is with #7? NG has gone in the shiatter with crap like this.

In other words, "Ohnoes! 'Urban' people!"

amiright?

#8 looks to be HDR, not something Nat Geo usually goes for. If it's not HDR, it's heavily post-processed.

A few really amazing photos and a couple that look like they might have been there by mistake.

CravenMorehead: A few really amazing photos and a couple that look like they might have been there by mistake.

Yeah, the zebra and cheetah images were...particularly odd choices. I'm a sucker for nature photos, but those two made me think "The camera went off at the wrong time or they farked up the aim, and said 'Fark it, we'll send it in anyway and say its artsy."

#9 are horrible zombie costumes

Some good shots, but I have seen better entries submitted by Farkers here.

SBinRR: mr_a: Needs more animals/nature, less freaks.

I don't know. Zombie girl looks like the good kind of freaky.
/No, the one on the left you freak!

Well, you know she puts out....

Inspirational to anyone with a camera.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN???

Spanky McStupid: Some good shots, but I have seen better entries submitted by Farkers here.

Spanky McStupid: Some good shots, but I have seen better entries submitted by Farkers here.

Spanky McStupid: Some good shots, but I have seen better entries submitted by Farkers here.

Spanky McStupid: Some good shots, but I have seen better entries submitted by Farkers here.

Spanky McStupid: Some good shots, but I have seen better entries submitted by Farkers here.

Tax Boy: [img861.imageshack.us image 640x426]
WHAT DOES IT MEAN???

It means that I'd like to be there, right now.

Meh

I submitted this with a better headline on my farkbook account...

/farkbork?
//facepalm?
///porkfart?
\whatever... meh.

I'd submitted these two... competition was brutal! The last 10 years have been a revolution in photography thanks to digital cameras.

Namibia dunes (new window)
Closeup of Broccoli (new window)

Lone Stranger: Dugs or GTFO.

I have not seen the term dugs in print since I think a National Lampoon magazine about 30 years ago. Made me pause and reflect on the greatness of the OC and Stiggs stories.

/sometimes I get concerned about excessive traffic on my lawn. Please stay off it.

EdenLiesObscured: #8 looks to be HDR, not something Nat Geo usually goes for. If it's not HDR, it's heavily post-processed.

The contest rules specified no HDR and minimal processing.

I like how #4 basically screwed up the shot (other people have managed to capture a high-speed hunt shot, especially in a Nat Geo contest), but he got to be a finalist anyway by talking his way into it being an "artistic" choice.

"I personally believe that, beyond the formal representation of reality, mediated by the technical instruments necessary to fix an image in time, photography is made of insights. The shot is the last act of image capturing and in many ways the easiest part of the whole process. This panning effect, even in its imperfection, with the chromatic harmony of the background, with all the needless information eliminated and the luck of having the big cat's lifted tail in symmetry with the impala horns, brings the observer inside the hunting without distractions."

doosh: I'd submitted these two... competition was brutal! The last 10 years have been a revolution in photography thanks to digital cameras.

Namibia dunes (new window)
Closeup of Broccoli (new window)

Beautiful!! :-D got a flickr, or something? eip