Contest - Our Favorite Shots of 2018

Good weather in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

Kamchatka Peninsula

Bears walking behind "Beware of the bears" sign :) Kurile Lake, Kamchatka

Flying over Karymsky volcano, Kamchatka

Home in Dunedin

Tuva Region, Russia.

The cape is named after the Ivan Starostin researcher Spitsbergen, who lived in the small house (captured) for 39 years including 32 with wintering.

Photo from the series "People from behind" made in summer 2015 in Moscow suburbs. Foggy background is the real forest fire.

Breakwater so beloved by birds in Bosphorus waterway, Istanbul, 2014. The photo was taken from the ferry to Kınalıada island.

Homeless guy with the stunning streetart on background.

model: EOS 40D lens: Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS aperture: f/8.0 exposures: 1/25,1/60,1/160 focal length: 40mm focus distance: 18.33m ISO: 100 datetime: Sat 11/17/2018 08:14:02 AM 3944x2622 (c) 2018 Mike Gollub

model: EOS 40D lens: Canon EF-S 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 IS aperture: f/8.0 exposures: 1/2,1/5,1/13 focal length: 40mm focus distance: 18.33m ISO: 100 3944x2622 (c) 2018 Mike Gollub

Grits looking up to her mother with love and admiration. On our deck in May 2018. Grits, nine months later, is almost as big as mom. Photo taken by my wife, FM. Outside Black Mountain, NC.

Grits loves her mother in a heavy rain storm on our deck in the mountains outside Black Mountain, NC. Photo taken by my wife, FM

Taken at our home as I was stacking wood. Little Bear was making sure I was working hard. And you thought YOU had a tough supervisor! Photo taken by my wife, FM. Outside Black Mountain, NC.