{"id":27095,"date":"2016-12-11T01:19:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T23:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=27095"},"modified":"2016-12-11T01:50:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T23:50:37","slug":"national-geographic-best-photos-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/11\/national-geographic-best-photos-of-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic: Best Photos of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

National Geographic<\/a> published its selection of the best photos of 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is a gallery of National Geographic’s 52 best images of the year\u2014curated from 91 photographers, 107 stories, and 2,290,225 photographs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some are, as always, absolutely amazing. \u00a0Some are not so much. \u00a0For a global collection of pictures, it’s surprising\u00a0to find the word “Yellowstone” mentioned 13 times on the page.<\/p>\n

This one is my favorite:<\/p>\n

\"teton-grizzly-feeding-adapt-1900-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Of those with people in them, I liked this one:<\/p>\n

\"tamarin-girl-adapt-590-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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National Geographic published its selection of the best photos of 2016. Here is a gallery of National Geographic’s 52 best images of the year\u2014curated from 91 photographers, 107 stories, and 2,290,225 photographs. Some are, as always, absolutely amazing. \u00a0Some are not so much. \u00a0For a global collection of pictures, it’s surprising\u00a0to find the word “Yellowstone” … Continue reading National Geographic: Best Photos of 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"National Geographic: Best Photos of 2016 #photography #world #nature #animals #people","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[255,841,79,334],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-27095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photography","tag-animals","tag-nature","tag-people","tag-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17672,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/13\/national-geographic-competition-and-birthday\/","url_meta":{"origin":27095,"position":0},"title":"National Geographic competition and birthday","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"BigPicture blog runs not one, but two posts on National Geographic. \u00a0One is for their Photography Contest winners - 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