Check out the results from the seventeenth #Commons Picture of the Year contest!

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2022/Results

#POTY #Wikimedia #CreativeCommons

Third place in #Wikimedia #Commons Picture of the Year :poty: (you've probably seen this one before)

Young stars form in 'The Pillars of Creation' as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared camera.

Attribution: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; image processing by Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI) / public domain

Full results: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2022/Results

#POTY #FreeCulture #CreativeCommons #PublicDomain

Second place in #Wikimedia #Commons Picture of the Year :poty:

Banna children in Ethiopia with traditional body painting, playing on wooden stilts.

Attribution: WAVRIK / CC-BY-SA 4.0

Full results: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2022/Results

#POTY #FreeCulture #CreativeCommons

The votes have been counted, announcing the 2022 #Wikimedia #Commons Picture of the Year :poty:

Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Little egret (Egretta garzetta) and Gadwell duck (Mareca strepera) in Taudaha Lake, near Katmandu, Nepal.

Attribution: Prasan Shrestha / CC-BY-SA 4.0

3,600+ voters selected this picture first out of 1,102 featured pictures and 55 other finalists!

See the rest of the results: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2022/Results

#POTY #FreeCulture #CreativeCommons

Check out the results from the seventeenth #Commons Picture of the Year contest!

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2022/Results

#POTY #Wikimedia #CreativeCommons

#WikimediaCommons :commons: has announced its photo of the year 2023. This year's winning photograph shows a Great cormorant, a Little egret and a Gadwell duck in #Taudaha Lake, near #Katmandu, #Nepal. The photo was taken by Prasan Shrestha. The image is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0. #POTY #POTY2023 #Wikimedia #CreativeCommons

Reminder: Today is the last day for voting for #Commons Picture of the Year! :poty:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2022

Nearly 2,800 people have already voted, you don't want to miss out!

Same as last time, you need to have made at least 75 edits before Jan 1 to be eligible to vote (https://meta.toolforge.org/accounteligibility/ can help you check)

Even if you're not eligible, check out the finalists, they're all gorgeous: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2022/R2/Gallery

#POTY #CreativeCommons #Wikimedia

The final round of voting for #Commons Picture of the Year is now open! :poty:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2022

2,407 voters cast 118,086 votes in round 1 to narrow it down to 56 beautiful finalists, and now it's time to pick the winner!

Same as last time, you need to have made at least 75 edits before Jan 1 to be eligible to vote (https://meta.toolforge.org/accounteligibility/ can help you check)

#POTY #CreativeCommons #Wikimedia

Reminder, there's only a few days left to vote in the first round of the #Commons Picture of the Year contest! :poty:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2022

You need to have made at least 75 edits before Jan 1 to be eligible to vote (https://meta.toolforge.org/accounteligibility/ can help you check)

#POTY #CreativeCommons #Wikimedia

It's that time of year again - voting in the Seventeenth Annual #Commons :commons: Picture of the Year :poty: is open now!

Check out absolutely gorgeous freely licensed photos and then vote! https://w.wiki/6b4V

You need to have made at least 75 edits before 2023-01-01 to be eligible to vote (https://meta.toolforge.org/accounteligibility/ can help you check)

P.S. if you missed last year's contest, here are the results: https://w.wiki/67zu

#POTY #CreativeCommons #Wikimedia

Voting in the Seventeenth Annual #Commons Picture of the Year contest is open now! :poty:

https://w.wiki/6b4V

Editors are selecting the best featured picture over the previous year from Wikimedia Commons (a free media repository and sister project to Wikipedia).

You need to have made at least 75 edits before Jan 1 to be eligible to vote (https://meta.toolforge.org/accounteligibility/ can help you check)

If you haven't seen them yet, check out last year's results: https://w.wiki/67zu

#POTY #CreativeCommons

The voting for the #Geograph #PictureOfTheYear #POTY for 2022 has finished. This is the winner::

"View from Tryfan's North ridge to Y Garn and Foel Goch"
cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Hansjoerg Lipp - https://geograph.org.uk/p/7307948

Hansjoerg is, interestingly, the host for the #German version of #Geograph at http://geo.hlipp.de/

International Garden Photographer of the Year competition 2023

'Tony North has been named winner of this year's International Garden Photographer of the Year competition.
His picture was taken in the island of La Palma, which is part of the Canary Islands. It is entitled Blue Tajinaste and also won first place in the Breathing Spaces section of the competition.'

Some beautiful photos here.

#photography #GardenPhotography #PhotographyCompetition #POTY #GardenPOTY

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-64472234?xtor=ES-208-[58185_NEWS_NLB_ACT_WK4_Fri_3_Feb]-20230203-[newsinpictures_garden_photographer]

P.S. my absolute favorite in #Wikimedia #Commons Picture of the Year :poty: finished in sixth place!

Lakes of meteorite origin in the Vladimir oblast in Russia.

Attribution: Ted.ns / CC-BY 4.0

Full results: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2021/Results

#POTY #FreeCulture #CreativeCommons

And third place in #Wikimedia #Commons Picture of the Year :poty:

Firefighter fighting a battle against a veld-fire at Ashton Bay, Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa.

Attribution: StevenTerblanche / CC-BY-SA 4.0

Full results: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2021/Results

#POTY #FreeCulture #CreativeCommons

Second place in #Wikimedia #Commons Picture of the Year :poty:

A leaf beetle (Aulacophora indica) (Family: Chrysomelidae; subfamily: Galerucinae) looking out from a leaf hole of Alnus nepalensis tree. Adult leaf beetles make holes in host plant leaves while feeding. They camouflage themselves with these holes. Taken in Chitwan National Park, Nepal.

Attribution: Mildeep / CC-BY-SA 4.0

Full results: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2021/Results

#POTY #FreeCulture #CreativeCommons

Second place in #Wikimedia #Commons Picture of the Year :poty:

A leaf beetle (Aulacophora indica) (Family: Chrysomelidae; subfamily: Galerucinae) looking out from a leaf hole of Alnus nepalensis tree. Adult leaf beetles make holes in host plant leaves while feeding. They camouflage themselves with these holes. Taken in Chitwan National Park, Nepal.

Attribution: Mildeep / CC BY-SA 4.0

Full results: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2021/Results

#POTY #FreeCulture #CreativeCommons

Announcing the newest #Wikimedia #Commons Picture of the Year :poty:

Saint John Church of Sohrol is a 5th or 6th century Armenian Catholic church in Sohrol, Shabestar, Iran.

Attribution: Farzin Izaddoust dar / CC-BY-SA 4.0

2,360 voters in round 1, and 2,971 voters in round 2 selected this image first out of 57 finalists; you can view the rest of the results: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2021/Results

#POTY #FreeCulture #CreativeCommons

My #GOTY: #Stray.
My #GOTY patch (#POTY?): #Cyberpunk #2077 v1.5

I, 2006 TIME Person of the Year (POTY), am voicing my opinion on the 2022 TIME POTY, using the 1982 TIME POTY.

Tags: #Silly #TIMEPOTY #POTY #TIME