The Signpost congratulates the winner and finalists of the Picture of the Year 2017 competition. The top 12 are presented in order below; full results are available on Wikimedia Commons.
Winner: Two Phyllomedusa rohdei vie for a branch, one passing over the other.
Attribution: Renato Augusto Martins / CC BY-SA 4.0
Attribution: Renato Augusto Martins / CC BY-SA 4.0
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Second place: Royal pavilion in Phraya Nakhon Cave in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, Prachuap Khiri Khan province, Thailand
Attribution: BerryJ (CC BY-SA 4.0) -
Third place: Computer Generated Cross Section 3d Model of Heart
Attribution: DrJanaOfficial (CC BY-SA 4.0) -
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#5: NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with the Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-126 on top flies over California's Mojave Desert on its way back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec 10, 2008.
Attribution: NASA - Photo by Carla Thomas. (public domain) -
#6: Margaret Hamilton standing next to the navigation software that she and her MIT team produced for the Apollo Project
Attribution: Draper Laboratory; restored by Adam Cuerden. (public domain) -
#7: Ogoy Island in winter, Lake Baikal, Pribaikalsky National Park, Russia
Attribution: Sergey Pesterev / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-4.0 -
#8: Capybaras (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) in the protected area of the Tietê River in São Paulo state, Brazil
Attribution: Clodomiro Esteves Junior (CC BY-SA 4.0) -
#9: A Wire-tailed swallow (Hirundo smithii) feeds its offspring.
Attribution: Manojiritty (CC BY-SA 4.0) -
#10: Temple dedicated to Khanderaya, also known as Khandoba, located in Jejuri, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Attribution: PKharote (CC BY-SA 4.0) -
#11: Pedra Azul (Blue Stone) peak with the center of the Milky Way above it.
Attribution: EduardoMSNeves (CC BY-SA 4.0) -
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I'm fairly sure that tree frog was a major character in the comedy horror movie Cabin in the Woods. MPS1992 (talk) 22:09, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]