Today, we are pleased to share with you the best images chosen by the community of Wikimedia Commons. Let us briefly introduce this platform for those who don’t know. Wikimedia Commons is part of the non-profit and free-to-reuse content Wikimedia family. Similar to the information available in this well-known, multilingual online encyclopedia, its sister website offers various media for everyone to browse and use free of charge. Here are some of the winning pictures this community chose between 2006 and 2022.
1. Nasa’s New Horizons Spacecraft Captured This High-Resolution Enhanced Color View Of Pluto On July 14, 2015 By Nasa
First place, Picture of the Year 2015
2. Two Julia Butterflies (Dryas Iulia) Drinking The Tears Of Turtles In Ecuador By Ministerio Turismo Ecuador
First place, Picture of the Year 2014
3. Jubilee And Munin. Ravens Of The Tower Of London By Colin
First place, Picture of the Year 2016
4. Young Stars Form In ‘The Pillars Of Creation’ As Seen By The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera By Nasa
Third place, Picture of the Year 2022
5. Notre Dame’s Spire Taken From The Saint Louis Bridge During The 15th April 2019 Fire By Levrier Guillaume
Second place, Picture of the Year 2019
6. Self Portrait Of Tracy Caldwell Dyson In The Cupola Module Of The International Space Station Observing The Earth Below During Expedition 24 By Tracy Caldwell Dyson (Nasa)
Second place, Picture of the Year 2011
7. A View Of The Lake Bondhus In Norway. In The Background A View Of The Bondhus Glacier As A Part Of The Folgefonna Glacier By Heinrich Pniok
First place, Picture of the Year 2011
8. Elakala Waterfalls In The Blackwater Falls State Park, West Virginia, United States By Forest Wander
Second place, Picture of the Year 2009
9. Banna Children In Ethiopia With Traditional Body Painting, Playing On Wooden Stilts By Wavrik
Second place, Picture of the Year 2022
10. Milky Way Lying Above A Lady, At Trona Pinnacles National Landmark, California By Ian Norman
Third place, Picture of the Year 2015
11. A Surgeon During The Covid-19 Pandemic In San Salvatore Hospital In Pesaro, Italy By Alberto Giuliani
Third place, Picture of the Year 2020
12. Train From Antofagasta To Bolivia By David Gubler
Second place, Picture of the Year 2018
13. European Bee-Eater, Ariège, France. The Female (In Front) Awaits The Offering Which The Male Will Make By Pierre Dalous
First place, Picture of the Year 2012
14. Eso’s Paranal Observatory By Yuri Beletsky
First place, Picture of the Year 2010
15. The Tungsten Filament Burning With A Flame In The Light Bulb By Stefan Krause
First place, Picture of the Year 2013
16. A Blue Jay (Cyanocitta Cristata) In Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada By Mdf
Third place, Picture of the Year 2006
17. National Park “Sviati Hory” (Holy Mountains) By Balkhovitin
Second place, Picture of the Year 2013
18. Stari Most, The “Old Bridge”, Which Connects The Two Banks Of River Neretva, Has Been A Symbol Of Mostar For Centuries By Ramirez
Second place, Picture of the Year 2010
19. A Village Girl By Salar Arkan
Third place, Picture of the Year 2019
20. High Above Tocopilla, Chile, One Of Sqms Boxcabs Coasts Downhill To The Reverso Switchback By David Gubler
Third place, Picture of the Year 2014
