<1> – 547 votes in Final; Two Julia Butterflies (Dryas iulia) drinking the tears of turtles in Ecuador Attribution:amalavida.tv (flickr) (CC BY-SA 2.0)
<2> – 416 votes in Final; An Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) in Antarctica jumping out of the water. Attribution: Christopher Michel / Cmichel67 (flickr) (CC BY 2.0)
<3> – 410 votes in Final; High above Tocopilla, Chile, one of SQMs Boxcabs coasts downhill to the Reverso switchback. Attribution: Kabelleger / David Gubler(CC BY-SA 4.0)
293 votes in Final; A Cheetah (Acinonyx juvatus) silhouetted against a fiery sunset, in the Oakavango Delta, in Botswana. – Attribution: Arturo de Frias Marques(CC BY-SA 4.0)
290 votes in Final; A U.S. Marine Corps C-130T Hercules aircraft with the Blue Angels, the Navy's flight demonstration squadron; – Attribution: DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Oscar L. Olive IV, U.S. Marine Corps/Released. (flickr) (PD-USGov-Marines)
276 votes in Final; Crystal Mill, an 1892 wooden powerhouse located on an outcrop above the Crystal River in Crystal, Gunnison County, Colorado, United States. – Attribution: Fowler (frickr) (CC BY-SA 2.0)
271 votes in Final; Mosaic of four images taken by Rosetta's navigation camera (NAVCAM) on 19 September 2014 at 28.6 km (17.8 mi) from the centre of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. – Attribution: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM, (CC BY-SA IGO 3.0)
249 votes in Final; Two young cheetah brothers cleaning each other after having fed. Okavango Delta, Botswana. – Attribution: Arturo de Frias Marques(CC BY-SA 4.0)
247 votes in Final; The Windmills of Consuegra (Castilla-La Mancha, Spain), seen at dusk in the image, were built in the first half of the 19th century and were proclaimed a Spanish Historical Site in 2008. – Attribution: Hugo Díaz-Regañón (Flickr) (CC BY-SA 2.0)
242 votes in Final; View of Carpathian National Park from Hoverla. Carpathian National Park, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine – Attribution: Balkhovitin(CC BY-SA 3.0)
241 votes in Final; A panoramic view from a ridge located between Segla and Hesten mountain summits in the island of Senja, Troms, Norway in 2014 August. – Attribution: Ximonic (Simo Räsänen)(CC BY-SA 4.0)
218 votes in Final; Antares Orb-3 launch failure, Oct. 28, 2014, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. – Attribution: NASA/Joel Kowsky (flickr) PD-USGov-NASA)
211 votes in Final; Daughter of Niobe bent by terror of Artemis. Uffizi Gallery - Sala della Niobe. Florence, Italy. – Attribution: Petar Milošević / PetarM(CC BY-SA 4.0)
210 votes in Final; The Swallow's Nest Castle near Gaspra, Yalta municipality. Republic of Crimea/Autonomous Republic of Crimea. – Attribution: (Cc-by-sa-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0)
208 votes in Final; Iron sculpture Zauberlehrling (sorcerer's apprentice) looking like a deformed and dancing power pole, photographed at sunset. – Attribution: Tuxyso(CC BY-SA 3.0)
208 votes in Final; The Hemicycle of the European Parliament in Strasbourg during a plenary session in 2014. – Attribution: Diliff(CC BY-SA 3.0)
195 votes in Final; Caminandes- Llama Drama - a Creative Commons movie – Attribution:Pablo Vazquez, Beorn Leonard, and Francesco Siddi. Music and Sound by Jan Morgenstern. (YouTube) (CC BY 3.0)
170 votes in Final; A Royal Air Force Chinook helicopter and a Royal Marine rigid-inflatable boat (RIB), off Studland Bay, Dorset, UK. – Attribution: LA PHOT HAMISH BURKE / MOD.UK(Open Government Licence v1.0)
160 votes in Final; Hoya HMC Pro1 Neutral Density (ND) ND4 filter used to increase exposure time and accentuate water flow in daylight. – Attribution: Robert Emperley (flickr)(CC BY-SA 2.0)
153 votes in Final; Hendrik Voogd - Italian landscape with Umbrella Pines. – Attribution: Created by Hendrik Voogd; photographed by Rijksmuseum(PD-Art (PD-old-100))
144 votes in Final; Timeline of the universe – Attribution:NASA/WMAP Science Team; modified by Ryan Kaldari(PD NASA)
131 votes in Final; Fly Agaric or Fly Amanita, Amanita muscaria, Family: Amanitaceae, Location: Germany, Erbach, Ringingen – Attribution: H. Krisp / Holleday(CC BY 3.0)
130 votes in Final; A leaf hair of thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), an unique structure that is made of a single cell. – Attribution: NASA pictures: used by Heiti Paves(CC BY-SA 3.0)
124 votes in Final; Lake Urmia drought (NASA images mixed using cross dissolve transition in adobe-premiere) – Attribution:مانفی's work using NASA pictures (PD-USGov-NASA)
123 votes in Final; Vällingbydepån (the Vällingby Subway depot), Stockholm metro. – Attribution: Arild Vågen / ArildV(CC BY-SA 4.0)
120 votes in Final; The torii gate at Itsukushima Shrine on the island of Itsukushima (Miyajima) in Hiroshima Prefecture, – Attribution: JordyMeow(CC BY-SA 3.0)
109 votes in Final; Detail of "Woman with green shawl", by Cyprien Eugène Boulet. – Attribution: Cyprien Eugène Boulet; Phtographed by The Photographer(PD-Art (PD-old-auto))
101 votes in Final; Borgund Stave Church in Lærdalen in Lærdal municipality, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway in 2013 June. – Attribution: Ximonic (Simo Räsänen)(CC BY-SA 3.0)
86 votes in Final; Bones inside the ossuary below the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. – Attribution: Jan.Kamenicek(CC BY-SA 3.0)
66 votes in Final; Here is the true natural portrait of the town, city, university of Parisy. Map of Paris, 1576 – Attribution: Rossingol, Melchior edit. Jebulon for upload (Gallica Digital Library) (PD-Art (PD-old-100))
62 votes in Final; View of the Pont de la Margineda, a bridge located in Santa Coloma d'Andorra, Andorra la Vella Parish, Andorra. – Attribution: Diego Delso / Poco a poco(CC BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 4.0)
51 votes in Final; Landscape at Lyngen fjord towards north, Spåkenes, Nordreisa, Troms in 2012 June. – Attribution: Ximonic (Simo Räsänen)(CC BY-SA 3.0)