Pictures: Winning National Geographic photos of 2011
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Check out these prize-winning photos from the 2011 National Geographic Photo Contest. This is the grand prize winner - a snap of a dragonfly taken in Indonesia in Asia - by Shikhei Goh. He'll be receiving his winner's prize in January.
The photos were judged in different categories, with this snap by Kent Shiraishi getting an honourable mention in the nature section. It's a blue pond in Japan with the first snow of winter on the trees.
This jellyfish is drifting just beneath the surface of a coastal lagoon in Spain. It was snapped up by Angel Fitor.
Marius Coetzee was leading a safari in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, Africa. It was midday and he came across a herd of zebra heading to a water hole to for a drink, so Marius took the opportunity to snap away.
And here's a cheetah chasing an impala (a type of antelope) in the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, Africa, by Stefano Pesarelli.
Wow, what clear water! Beaming above is a beautiful rainbow in the Palawan Islands in the Philippines, Asia. George Tapan's photo came top in the 'places' category with this pic.
In Hung-Hsiu Shih photo these fishermen in Taiwan, Asia, don't look short of fish to go around!
Two kite flyers in Brazil, South America, snapped by Felipe Carvalho.
It's raining! A torrential monsoon rain in Bhaktapur, Nepal, photographed by Anuar Patjane.
This is American space shuttle Endeavour launching into orbit - James Vernacotola was 115 miles from the Kennedy Space Centre, where it launched from, and left his camera's lens open for 132 seconds to get this amazing photo.