Danielle Lefrancois: Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Canada

Last year the National Geographic Photo Contest saw more than 20,000 entries from over 130 countries. This year there are three categories, like before: People, Places, and Nature. Amateurs as well as professionals are sending in their entries for 2012. Take a look at some of them.

Lukasz Piech: Field worker, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India

Zachary Bako: Tonle Sap Great Lake, Cambodia

Michaela May: Safari, Kruger National Park, South Africa

Bill Tang: Milky Way, Joshua Tree National Park, USA

John Gaskell: Atlantic Spotted Dolphins, White Sand Ridge, Little Bahama Bank, Bahamas

Money Sharma: Dahi Handi, Mumbai, India

Kirk Nielsen: Great White Shark, off Guadalupe Island, Mexico

Ondrej Zaruba: Happy buffalo and frogs, Sri Lanka

Aditya Waikul: Jyotiba Tample, Maharashtra, India

Mohf Nadly Aizat Mohd Nudri: Foggy Pier, Lake Brunner, New Zealand

Ashley Vincent: Tigress, Khao Kheow Open Zoo, Thailand

See the rest of the entries here