Announcing [Smithsonian Magazine’s] 11th Annual Photo Contest Finalists
See our finalists, selected from over 50,000 entries, and vote for the Readers’ Choice winner
Photograph by Graham McGeorge (Jacksonville, Florida).
FINALIST: Natural World
McGeorge spent a quiet 6 hours trying to get the perfect image of
this eastern screech owl out of its nest. (Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia, April 2013, Canon 1D Mark III)