These are just 47 photos selected by
The Big Picture at boston.com from the thousands of this years National Geographic photo contest. Some are simply remarkable.
Do not skip the captions as some provide an insight to what the photographer was experiencing.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...photograp.html
Here is a link to the home of the 2010 contest....
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/photo-contest/