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Featured pictures

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Featured pictures are images from highly skilled photographers and illustrators that the Wikimedia Commons community has chosen as some of the highest quality on the site.

Simply click on the name of a category on this page to see all the featured images for that subject. To reuse any images from Wikimedia Commons please see the simple guide.

There are currently 11,530 of such images in the Commons repository which is roughly 0.023% of the available images (49,362,873). All featured images are entered into our annual Picture of the Year competition.

Images may be considered for featured status by being listed at Commons:Featured picture candidates, where the community will reach a consensus. You can find all featured pictures in Category:Featured pictures on Wikimedia Commons.

Old candidates for Featured pictures are listed here. There are also chronological lists of featured pictures: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and current month.

The Gallery Slideshow will allow you to explore Featured pictures from all Wikimedia projects by subject or by country.

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Purana tigrina is a species of cicada in the genus Purana found in Southeast Asia. This is a newly emerged female. After moulting, they will find a suitable place and hang vertically. Their wings need to be inflated with fluid and their skin will harden prior to making the maiden flight.
 

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Contents: Animals · Astronomy · Food and drink · Historical · Natural phenomena · Objects · People · Places · Plants · Fungi · Space exploration · Sports · Static non-photographic media

Animals

  • Grapsus adscensionis - Tenerife 01.jpg
  • Нерпичий взгляд.jpg
  • Japanese white-eye at Tennōji Park in Osaka, January 2016 II.jpg
  • Barn swallow (feeding) at Tennōji Park in Osaka, June 2016 - 315.jpg

Astronomy

  • Io highest resolution true color.jpg
  • PIA22349 – Gullies of Matara Crater.jpg
  • PIA17218 – A Farewell to Saturn, Brightened Version.jpg
  • Super moon over City of London from Tate Modern 2018-01-31 6.jpg

Food and drink

  • Würfelzucker -- 2018 -- 3564.jpg
  • Steam-boiling green asparagus.jpg
  • Christmas table (Serbian cuisine).jpg
  • Kifli made with spelt flour (Serbian cuisine).jpg

Historical

  • Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima by Joe Rosenthal.jpg
  • Blücher-Denkmal Bebelplatz 1961.jpg
  • British wounded Bernafay Wood 19 July 1916.jpg
  • Warriors of Lapland.jpg

Natural phenomena

  • Caldera de las Cañadas - Los Azulejos 01.jpg
  • Jaflong Sylhet.jpg
  • Aurora in Abisko near Torneträsk.jpg
  • Virmalised 15.09.2017 - Aurora Borealis 15.09.2017 copy.jpg

Objects

  • Stéphane Cardone (ship).jpg
  • Porsche 959 Rothmans IMG 0677.jpg
  • Grutte Griene, eiland in het natuurreservaat “Sneekermeer”. (d.j.b.) 09.jpg
  • Starting the charcoal.jpg

Other lifeforms

  • Gutweed at low tide in Brofjorden 8.jpg
  • Ebola Virus - Electron Micrograph.tiff
  • Tubifera dudkae-4.jpg
  • The freshwater alga Spirogyra.jpg

People

  • Water reflection of a smiling woman planting rice.jpg
  • Boy plowing with a tractor at sunset in Don Det, Laos.jpg
  • Yawning Infant, August 2018.jpg
  • Lies Noor (c. 1956), Djakartawood (no name).jpg

Places

  • Ulm Münster Choraltar 01.jpg
  • The Merchant Adventurers Hall Governors Parlour Room.jpg
  • Norderney, Haus Schiffahrt -- 2018 -- 0980-4.jpg
  • Volcanes de lodo, Buzau, Rumanía, 2016-05-29, DD 41.jpg

Plants

  • Arkaia - Girasoles -BT- 04.jpg
  • Rosa 'Rosengräfin Marie Henriette' (actm).jpg
  • Caldera de las Cañadas - Echium wildpretii - 02.jpg
  • Hosta 'Grand Slam'. (d.j.b.) 02.jpg

Fungi

  • Coprinellus micaceus, Mica Inkcap, UK.jpg
  • Hohenbuehelia mastrucata (Fr.) Singer 369296.jpg
  • Cortinarius vanduzerensis 134617.jpg
  • Pholiota squarrosoides (Peck) Sacc 664568.jpg

Space exploration

Sports

  • Match Cup Norway 2018 88.jpg
  • Fischlham Mevisto Cup 2017 Trickski Theresa Schmidberger1-1.jpg
  • Leichtathletik Gala Linz 2018 pole vault Preiner Katrin-5628.jpg
  • 20180602 FIFA Friendly Match Austria vs. Germany Team Germany 850 0740.jpg

Static non-photographic media

  • Home in Relation to Everything.png
  • Swing into books, Book week, November 1-7, 1964.jpg
  • Soyuz rocket and spaceship V1-1.svg
  • Vitascope.jpg
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