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Every year National Geographic’s Traveler<\/em> holds a contest for the best amateur travel photo; 2008’s winner being a candid shot from within the Prado Museum in Madrid, a photo that earned this lucky photographer a 15-day voyage to Antarctica. To see all of this year’s winners click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n My favorite’s the third runner-up, a magical photo of a Buddhist Monastery deep in the hills of Bhutan. It’s always the third runner-up that’s getting shafted isn’t it? Their prize was an hour-long ferry ride along the coast of New Jersey during the month of February.<\/p>\n And if you were wondering, the above photo was taken by one of the winners, an Icelandic photographer named \u00d6rvar Thorgeirsson whose mind-boggling photos of Icelandic Aurora can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every year National Geographic’s Traveler holds a contest for the best amateur travel photo; 2008’s winner being a candid shot from within the Prado Museum in Madrid, a photo that earned this lucky photographer a 15-day voyage to Antarctica. To see all of this year’s winners click here. My favorite’s the third runner-up, a magical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2567],"tags":[2539,169],"yoast_head":"\n