Commons:Picture of the Year/2021/Results
Saint John Church of Sohrol is a 5th- or 6th-century Armenian Catholic church in Sohrol, Shabestar, Iran.
Attribution: Farzin Izaddoust dar / CC-BY-SA 4.0
374 votes
Second place: A leaf beetle (Aulacophora indica) (Family: Chrysomelidae; subfamily: Galerucinae) looking out from a leaf hole of Alnus nepalensis tree. Adult leaf beetles make holes in host plant leaves while feeding. They camouflage themselves with these holes. Location: Chitwan National Park, Nepal.
Attribution: Mildeep (CC-BY-SA 4.0)
348 votes
Third place: Firefighter fighting a battle against a veld-fire at Ashton Bay, Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa.
Attribution: StevenTerblanche (CC-BY-SA-4.0) 332 votes
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Picture of the Year 2021 Results
Dear Wikimedians,
The 2021 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results:
In both rounds, people voted for their favorite media files.
- In the first round, there were 1050 candidate images.
- In the second round, people voted for the 57 finalists (the R1 top 30 overall and top 2 in each category).
In the second round – the “three votes” was used – eligible users could vote for up to 3 finalists – each of these 3 votes counted equal. There were 2,360 eligible voters in R1, and 2,971 in round R2.
We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful media files and sharing them as freely licensed content:
- 374 people voted for the winner, File:Holy SURP Hovhannes Church.jpg.
- In second place, 348 people voted for File:The Bug Peek.jpg.
- In third place, 332 people voted for File:Firefighter, Ashton Bay, March 2017.jpg.
We also sincerely thank all voters for participating. We invite you to continue to participate in the Wikimedia Commons community by sharing your work.
Thanks,the Picture of the Year committee