The pictures are beautiful, but National Geographic should be ashamed of itself for they way it runs the contest.
To enter the contest, you have to agree to give all rights to your work to National Geographic, whether you win or not. That is shameful, to take somebody's creative work and not pay for it under the guise of a contest. National Geographic is not the only national organization that does this.
That means, of course, if your picture does not win, you don't own it any longer, and you can't even make a print of it for your wall.
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