Wikipedia "Picture of the Year" award was started back in 2006 and the pictures there are just stunning!
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2008 winning picture is below of the horses on Bianditz mountain, in Navarre, Spain. Behind them Aiako mountains can be seen.
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2007 winning picture is of the Broadway Tower, Cotswolds, England.
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2006 winning picture is of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, shines above Bear Lake, Alaska.
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Link:
Wikimedia: Picture of the Year