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:
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.
