2014 Pictorial
First Place - 2014 Pictorial
Two Turkey Buzzards stay out of the weather and sit in the window of an abandoned farmhouse, March 30, 2014 in Owings, Maryland
Mark Wilson / Getty images
Second Place - 2014 Pictorial
Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Hassidic sect Vizhnitz reflect on a car window as they gather on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean sea as they participate in a Tashlich ceremony in Herzeliya, Israel, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. Tashlich, which means "to cast away" in Hebrew, is the practice by which Jews go to a large flowing body of water and symbolically "throw away" their sins by throwing a piece of bread, or similar food, into the water before the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
Oded Balilty / Associated Press
Third Place - 2014 Pictorial
A veteran wearing service medals bows his head during a remembrance service on ANZAC Day in central Sydney April 25, 2014. Australia and New Zealand on Friday marked the 99th anniversary of the first major military action involving Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. ANZAC is an acronym for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps.
David Gray / Reuters News Agency
Honorable Mention - 2014 Pictorial
Ronildo Alves da Silva jokingly pours river water over his guest Wagner Magalhaes who arrived by boat to check on Ronildo and his family in the village Barra do So Loureno in Pantanal, Brazil. The village has been flooded by 4 months already with water inside houses and most residents either gone to the city or living in makeshift shelters on higher grounds. Pantanal is the largest wetland in the world, a sensitive ecosystem that depends on annual flooding and minimal human activity to survive.
Marcin Szczepanski / University of Michigan
Honorable Mention - 2014 Pictorial
An array of colors splash across a brick wall as the leaves wither with the season change from autumn to winter on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 on a building adjacent to the second floor of the Rutherford Parking Structure on Beach Street in downtown Flint.
Jake May / The Flint Journal, MLive Media Group