National Geographic's 2014 Photo of the Year

Every year, National Geographic accepts entries from all around the world for its “Photo of the Year” contest. In 2014, they received over 9,200 entries. These 35 are just some of the best entries, and each one is spectacular. "Fox Glance" Sam Morris "Snowy in Florida... You're Having a Laugh" Graham McGeorge "Hope on the Horizon" Christina Kehres "Being this Cute Can Sure be Hard Work" John Rollings "Powder Color" Christopher Dormoy "Make Up" 毓芳 陳 "Natural Light Painting" Stephan Brenner "Blue and Red" Marc Henauer "Under the Moon" Fernando Martinez Belmar "Divine Makeover" Mahesh Balasubramanian "Raining" Kutub Uddin "Emergence" Craig Parry "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" Marc Henauer "Burning Autumn" Yuga Kurita "Best Friends" Réhahn Croquevielle "Another World" Sabrina Dang "Athabasca Canyon" Candice Gordon "The Eyes of the World" Charlene Sanchez Tarazona "Eye Wonder" Jean Hall "Painted Ladies" Daniel Kudish "Traditional Mostar Jumps from Old Bridge" Haris Begić "Iridescent Clouds" Oh Kobayashi "Heartbroken" Kristyna Novakova "The Buckskin" Bill Stipp "Metropolitan Spaghetti" Michael Sroslak "Golden Glance" Bêca Arruda "West Mitten" Benjamin Murto "After Typhoon Haiyan" Sergey Ponomarev "Sunset Apocalypse" Amanda Nand "The Lovely Inari" Iker Deng "Floating Car" Takashi Nakagawa "Niagara Falls" Ed Norton "Malachite Sunbird" Beau Kahler "Milford Sound, New Zealand" Tom Putt "Rarity"