RWANDA- Nature's Best Photography, the Windland Smith Rice International Awards competition, celebrates natures most incredible sights and creatures every year.
The winning image is chosen out of hundreds of thousands of photos submitted by photographers from all around the world with various levels of experience. The winners and highly honored images are displayed at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. from now until May 2, 2010.
John Reiter is the grand prize winning photographer this year. He climbed a 10,000 foot high mountain through thick bamboo rain forest, along with his guide. After the climb, they found themselves within 20 feet of a family of gorillas and this amazingly beautiful, almost 500 pound mountain silver-back gorilla seen in the prize winning photo.
The United Nations Environment Program has named 2009 the "Year of the Gorilla" to raise awareness of the critical status of this endangered species.
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