Smithsonian.com announced the winners of its 13th annual photo contest Tuesday.
The contest saw more than 460,000 submissions from photographers in 168 different countries. Nine images were selected as winners.
Photographers can now submit their work for the 14th annual contest until November 30, 2016. Judges will select winners in the same categories as this year's contest.
Below are the beautiful winning images from each category this year.