Announcing the Winners of Our 9th Annual Photo Contest

Our editors pored over more than 67,000 photographs, each one a postcard from a unique time and place

  • By Jesse Rhodes
  • Smithsonian magazine, July-August 2012,
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Natural World

(Lucy Chien)


Natural World Winner

Lucy Chien, Age 30
San Francisco, California • Photographed June 2010
“Oregon will always be a special place for me, having grown up there,” Chien says of this coastal scene. “Little did I know that even clams have a personality and know how to smile for the camera.”

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Comments (3)

Nice photo but out of 67,000 this is the best you could come up with??? Isn't this a Rock Scallop?

This is a worthy photograph!

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