Winning Images 2021: Check out our annual photography contest's winners 

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• Cover Photo By Marlin Harms
• EXPOSURE Marlin Harms' photo, Bare Naked Ladies, won first place in the Flora category in this year's Winning Images contest.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then we've got 32,000 beautiful, captivating, intimate, and skillfully wrought "words" for you this week. We're pleased to present the top photos from this year's Winning Images annual photography contest, which was again run all digitally thanks to COVID-19. But despite pandemic shutdowns, these intrepid photographers of all ages got behind their lenses to capture moments of drama, peace, and light in landscapes, animals, people, and everything in between. Give yourself plenty of time to enjoy these photographs.