After several years off, National Geographic magazine has brought back a public photo contest and invited hobbyist photographers to send in their best images of the natural world.
Editors at National Geographic judged the contest and landed on nine honorable mentions and one grand-prize winning image. Photographer Karthik Subramaniam’s image of a group of bald eagles posting up on a tree branch in hunt of salmon in Alaska took top honors, which means it’ll have the rare distinction of being a reader-submitted image published in the magazine (in the May issue).