Winner`s story is already online
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2018/08/01/unfrogettable-picture-of-the-year/

Seems I wasn't aware that there are two news feeds from the Foundation (blog and site).


2018-08-04 19:12 GMT+03:00 Anna Khrobolova <anna.khrobolova@wikimedia.org.ua>:
aaaand Wiki Loves Earth photo wins the title!

Freaky note of mine: WLE also prevails WLM in top 12: five against two :)

It would be great if Brazilian team could tell more about the author Renato Augusto Martins  and his contributions. You are welcome and waited with the post for WLE site.



2018-07-13 17:48 GMT+03:00 Anna Khrobolova <anna.khrobolova@wikimedia.org.ua>:
Hi all,

Second round of Picture of the Year 2017 runs in Wikimedia Commons till July, 22. 

Wiki Loves Earth winning photos are among finalists. Let's vote for them!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2017

Those are
  1. Wiki Love Earth’s 2017 overall winner: Ogoy Island in Russia’s Lake Baikal. Photo by Sergey Pesterev
  2. Tenth place: Two Perereca-monkey (Phyllomedusa rohdei) in Atlantic Forest fragment at the Michelin Ecological Reserve, Bahia, Brazil. By Renato Augusto Martins.
  3. Fifteenth place: Capybaras near the Tietê River in São Paulo state, Brazil by Clodomiro Esteves Junior.
  4. Sixth place: Pedra Azul (Blue Stone) with the Milky Way above it, located in the eponymous state park in Brazil. Photo by EduardoMSNeves.
  5. WLE Ukraine participant: Polonina of shepherds after a thunderstorm. Carpathian Biosphere Reserve by Михайло Пецкович
  6.  1st prize in the national contest of Sweden: Tallmon Nature Reserve by Pixpep.
  7.  WLE Russia participant: Aniva lighthouse, Sakhalin, Russia by Yaroslav Shuraev

Please, complete the list if I missed any.

To vote, you must be an established Wikimedia user with more than 75 edits before January 1, 2018. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2017/R2/Gallery


Anna Khrobolova