Wikimedia Commons receives millions of new images every year, and they've just announced their three best from 2011. My favorite is this runner-up:
Self portrait of Tracy Caldwell Dyson in the Cupola module of the International Space Station observing the Earth below during Expedition 24. (NASA, public domain image)
Wait, that's NOT Ten Forward?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Alex Wild
Alex Wild is Curator of Entomology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studies the evolutionary history of ants. In 2003 he founded a photography business as an aesthetic complement to his scientific work, and his natural history photographs appear in numerous museums, books and media outlets.
