2018 It's Amazing Out There Photo Contest Winners

1. 2018 It's Amazing Out There Photo Contest Winners
Grand Prize Winner: "Celestial Encounter" submitted by Marcel Siegle

2. 2018 It's Amazing Out There Photo Contest Winners

3. Second Place Winner: "Buffalo in Orange" submitted by Rick Beldegreen

4. Third Place Winner: "Mother Nature's Lightshow" submitted by Michael Wasserberger

5. The Fan Favorite Winners

6. The sun sets over the Grand Canyon on May 20, 2018. (Tony Bendele)

7. "This awesome lighthouse is in
Michigan City, Ind., and has helped
to guide thousands of boats back
home for generations," the
photographer shared with
weather.com. (Nancy Addie)

8. A great horned owl watches over her young as the
sun rises in Charlotte County, Fla. (David Eppley)

9. 2018 It's Amazing Out There Photo Contest Finalists

10. “Tiny,” a rescued brown bear, dries off at the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colo. (Bary and Athena Burns)

11. A mother whale swims with her calf in Vava'u, Tonga. (Lyle Krannichfeld)

12. A tornado is seen in Dodge City, Kan. (Lauren Leete)

13. A lone figure wanders through a dune field in Death Valley National Park as a windstorm blows sand across the landscape. (Peter Coskun)

14. Waves roll in on Two Medicine Lake in Glacier National Park after a late fall storm. (Matt Meisenheimer)

15. A coyote stands in falling snow outside of Chicago. (Brian Butler)

16. Two male desert bighorn sheep lock horns near Boulder City, Nev. (Adrian Hernandz)

17. The great blue heron is one largest of the North American herons. In flight, it curls its neck into a tight “S” shape while its wings are spread broad and its legs trail well beyond the tail. (Linn Smith)

18. This is a drone photo of a river in Iceland flowing underneath a snowy bridge. (Joshua Pellegrini)

19. A massive haboob moves through the town of Tacna, Ariz., right at sunset as it approaches the California border. (Greg McCown)

20. The Kilauea lava flow hits the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii's Big Island. (Anna Holland)

21. As the sun was setting near Breckenridge, Colo., this fox seemed to pose for the camera. (Colt Thiel)

22. A Belemnia inaurata (tiger moth) in lands on a flower in Costa Rica. (Len Greene)

23. A thunder storm is captured off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (Jean-Claude Ardila)

24. Great patterns are seen from above in the Mojave Desert, Calif., in this aerial image photographed from a plane. (Jassen Todorov)

25. A ranch wrangler gallops towards a photographer
during a snowstorm. (Ann Hopta)

26. An anole peeks out from behind a Johnson grass leaf. (Gerald Botkin)

27. A Great Blue Heron is photographed on a misty morning in Pedernales Falls State Park in Texas. (Jerry Sargent)

28. A perfect lightning strike is photographed during a massive thunderstorm at sunset in the southeastern corner of Arizona. (Dustin Kukuk)

29. A salt lake with a pink hue is photographed from
above at Hutt Lagoon in Australia. (Debojyoti Lahiri)

30. The weather coming in from the Pacific Ocean crashes into the Eastern Sierras with mighty force. (Miles Morgan)

31. Here's a view looking up from an icy slot canyon in the Canadian Rockies. (David Swindler)

32. A lemon shark cruises by a boat at sunrise in the Bahamas (Rick Beldegreen)

33. A storm hits Bellvale Farm in Warwick, N.Y., with stunning lightning. (Robin LaCicero)

34. Brody Wilson effortlessly jumps his bike in
Templeton, Mass., at dusk. (MacKenzie Hennessey)

35. As the sun goes down in Cody, Wy., two wild stallions fight on the horizon line. (Jamie Baldanza)

36. Storm clouds approach a newly cut hay field. (Debbie Cram)

37. A swan enjoys a beautiful winter day around the lake. (William Huchton)

38. A low flying raven flies above a blanket of snow on Jackson Lake in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. (Thomas Schuch)

39. An abandoned homestead on the great plains of Wyoming is photographed on the tail end of a thunderstorm above. (Matt Kempinger)

40. This picture was taken on Lake Pontchartrain during
a spectacular lightning storm. (Rick Erbach)

41. A black bear charges in White Sulpher Springs, Mont. (Erin Finstad)

42. A wasp feeds on a flower in spring 2018. (David Zuloaga)

43. An amazing photogenic close range tornado is captured near Roggen, Colo., on June 19, 2018. (Blake Brown)

44. The extraordinary Mont San Michel faces a massive storm. (Johanna Siegmann)

45. A beautiful sunset reflection and storm clouds are photographed in the middle of the Florida Everglades National Park. (Ivan Gastaldo)

46. In a central Minnesota city's river, a cormorant flips his catch before indulging. (Tom Samuelson)

47. A shelf cloud Is photographed in Lawrenceburg, Ky. (Miles Terry)

48. A lightning strike is captured in Lewisport, Ky. (Mike Hall)

49. Clouds build over the Jupiter Lighthouse in Jupiter, Fla. (Jim Mandeville)

50. An American black bear in is photographed at Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge outside of the Outer Banks, N.C. (Chad Murphy)

51. The early morning horse roundup at is photographed at CM Ranch in Wyoming. (May Stinson)

52. A storm forms over a wind farm near Limon, Colo. (Jon Cameron)

53. A sudden and dramatic change in scenery is captured as a mid summer's storm looms over this Kennebunkport, Maine, beach. (Nathaniel Graham)

54. California Sea Lions bask in the warmth of the California sunshine in Monterey, Calif. (Tony Britton)

55. This picture was taken on a foggy afternoon in Norwalk, Conn. (Oleksandra Romanyshyn)

56. Mountain climbers descend France's Aiguille du Midi while the rest of France is under a heatwave. (Emilie Talpin)

57. 07-OCTUBRE-2018 END
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