15 beautiful images from the finalists of Smithsonian Magazine's annual photo contest

A woman looks out of a bus window in Bulgaria.

A yellow-headed male jawfish holds his babies in his mouth. The yellow-headed males, rather than the females, are responsible for carrying the babies.

A girl rides the train in India.

Wildebeest jump into a river in Kenya.

The Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in Sêrtar, China, is the biggest Buddhist settlement in the world, home to 40,000 monks and nuns.

A man reads the Koran, Islam's holy book, during the holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in Manama, Bahrain.

Gary Fiedler took this shot while canoeing under the Aurora borealis in Canada.

A devotee is helped up during The Way of The Cross in the Philippines.

Blankets are spread out for summer movie night at Bryant Park in Manhattan, New York.

A woman walks in front of a red wall in China.

These are the beginning stages of a pool ball knobstopper being made for Hester & Cook Design Group.

Swimmers compete in the La Jolla Rough Water Swim in California.

Volcanic material flows from Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra, Indonesia.

A man rides a bike in front of Bird's Nest, the stadium built for the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing.

A man wrestles a hog in Wisconsin.