2013 Pictorial

First Place Winner - 2013 Pictorial

People watch fireworks from inside their hotel room windows along Point State Park on Light Up Night in downtown Pittsburgh, PA on Friday, November 16, 2012. Light Up Night brings Christmas tree lighting ceremonies and other holiday festivities to the streets of the downtown, as well as fireworks shows over Pittsburgh's three rivers converging at Point State Park. "Light Up Night Pittsburgh"

Photo by Stephanie Strasburg

Second Place Winner - 2013 Pictorial

A white cat crawls by a kolam, a South Indian rice powder or chalk drawing, on the floor outside of the kitchen hut doorway on a farm in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India. These floor drawings are ment to bring luck and prsoperity to a household.

Photo by Robin Laird

Third Place Winner - 2013 Pictorial

Fire consumes trees along US highway 120 as the Rim Fire burns out of control on August 21, 2013 in Buck Meadows, California.

Photo by Justin Sullivan

Honorable Mention - 2013 Pictorial

Sharron Grovner stands in the backyard of her home in the Hog Hammock community of Sapelo Island, Ga., May 16, 2013. "As we get older, we doubt what the future holds," says Grovner. "In 15, 20 years, I hope and pray that we’ll still be here." Grovner is one of roughly 47 residents, most of them descendants of West African slaves known as Geechee, who remain on Sapelo Island, the coastal Georgia island where their ancestors were brought to work a plantation in the early 1800s. The Geechees have retained their African traditions more than other African American communities in the U.S. Once freed, the slaves were able to acquire land and created settlements on the island, of which only the tiny 464-acre Hog Hammock community still exists. Residents say a sudden tax hike, lack of jobs, and development is endangering one of the last remaining Geechee communities from Florida to North Carolina. "Endangered Geechee"

Photo by David Goldman