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These Gorgeous Photos Are National Geographic’s Best Of 2011

This little Indonesian dragonfly is kind of a big deal. It’s the winning subject of National Geographic’s 2011 Photo Contest and helped Shikhei Goh beat out 20,000 other submissions to net the $US10,000 Grand Prize.

Check out the rest of the best as well as every other submission gallery at National Geoographic.

“The Blue Pond” by Ken Shirashi

Photo by Angel Fitor

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    Michael

    Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 10:55 PM

    Only if gizmodo had the prize pool for a photo competition

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    Sevrin

    Monday, January 16, 2012 at 7:51 AM

    You can almost see the dragonfly swearing!!

    Brilliant shot!

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    Luke

    Monday, January 16, 2012 at 8:54 AM

    wow that full gallery (as well as the few you posted) are incredible shots. thanks for the link giz!

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