Every year, National Geographic magazine awards prizes for the best photographs of the year in the categories nature, places and people. The winners for 2011 are here. A lot of them are spectacular; this shot of a dragonfly in the rain, taken in Indonesia, won the grand prize:
This one of a zebra fleeing a waterhole in Tanzania is another of my favorites:
Some of the non-nature ones are very cool, too. This is a monsoon in Bhaktapur, Nepa:
