Capturing Nature's Best

For its annual competition, Nature's Best Photography magazine invites photographers to submit their most arresting images of animals in the wild, backyards or even the zoo. The gallery below features some of 2007's finalists. The rest of this collection is on view in the magazine and at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Note: Please upgrade your Flash plug-in to view our enhanced content.

This Story PHOTOS: Nature's Best Photos \| For its annual competition, Nature's Best Photography magazine invites photographers to submit their most arresting images of animals in the wild, backyards or even the zoo. The gallery below features some of 2007's finalists. The rest of this collection is on view in the magazine and at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. About the Exhibit: Into the Great Wild Open City Guide: Visitor Information		TOOLBOX E-Mail This Save/Share + Digg Newsvine del.icio.us Stumble It! Reddit Facebook COMMENT 0 Comments Your browser's settings may be preventing you from commenting on and viewing comments about this item. See instructions for fixing the problem. Discussion Policy CLOSE Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will take steps to block users who violate any of our posting standards, terms of use or privacy policies or any other policies governing this site. Please review the full rules governing commentaries and discussions. You are fully responsible for the content that you post. Who's Blogging » Links to this gallery		More on washingtonpost.com • More Photo News » washingtonpost.com placeholder » Related Topics & Web Content
» This Story:Read +\|Watch +\| Comments