These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why penguins have waddled into our hearts ...

Beetles battling for mating rights, a bear stalking through the rainforest and a damselfly perched in front of a waterfall ...

One of the most special things about photographs is that they freeze a moment in time—a split second that happened that we will never get back. They can transport us to the past and give us a glimpse ...

A girl staring into the distance, two Chinese coal miners joking during a break from work, and a Pallas cat lying in the snow ...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a really good photograph by somebody who knows what he or she is doing with a camera is worth tens of thousands of words. A special image can tell not just a ...

This photo gallery, curated by photo editor Bridget Jones, highlights some of the most compelling images worldwide made or ...

The stunning winners are a diverse range of intimate portraits, infrared and iPhone photography, and striking black-and-white ...