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Featured pictures

Featured pictures are images from highly skilled creators that the Wikimedia Commons community has chosen as some of the highest quality on the site.

Simply click on the name of a category on this page to see the featured images for that subject. To reuse any images from Wikimedia Commons please see this guide.

There are currently 22,046 such images in the Commons repository which is roughly 0.015% of the available images (144,703,901). All featured images are entered into our annual Picture of the Year competition. You may wish to browse the profiles of individual photographers, illustrators, and restorationists within the Commons community who have contributed a substantial portion of our featured pictures.

Images may be considered for featured status by being listed at Commons:Featured picture candidates, where the community will reach a consensus. An image only appears one time in the galleries. You can find all featured pictures in Category:Featured pictures on Wikimedia Commons.

Old candidates for featured pictures are listed here. There are also chronological lists of featured pictures: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 and current month.

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Picture of the day

The Chess Queen, a.k.a. The Totem Pole, located a few hundred yards east of Cottonwood Cove, in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, northern Arizona. Today is International Chess Day. +/− [en]

Galleries

Contents:	Animals · Astronomy · Food and drink · Fungi · Historical · Natural phenomena · Objects · Other lifeforms · People · Photo techniques · Places · Plants · Space exploration · Sports · Static non-photographic media

Animals

Sphingonotus sp avec malformation
DESERT MONITOR EATING LIZARD Aliyah reserve Kuwait
Morpho butterfly - Seaforde Gardens and Tropical Butterfly House
Abeille entrain de butiner 2

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Arachnida (Arachnids) ·

Diptera (Flies) ·

Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps & Sawflies) ·

Lepidoptera (Moths & Butterflies) ·

Odonata (Damselflies and dragonflies) ·

Arthropoda (Arthropods) ·

Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fish) ·

Amphibia (Amphibians) ·

Reptilia (Reptiles) ·

Aves (Birds) ·

Accipitriformes (hawks, eagles, vultures and relatives) ·

Anseriformes (Waterfowl) ·

Charadriiformes (Waders) ·

Coraciiformes ·

Passeriformes (Passerines) ·

Pelecaniformes ·

Mammalia (Mammals) ·

Artiodactyla (Even-toed ungulates) ·

Carnivora (Carnivores) ·

Primates ·

Others ·

Bones and fossils ·

Shells ·

Animals in their habitats

Astronomy

Solar eclipse taken from Artemis II - April 2026
Поглед на Млечен Пат над Кокино
M24 - VST - potw2237a
NGC 4826 - HST

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Food and drink

Orange 002 2014 03 19
Steckerlfisch auf der Auer Maidult 05
Table for Badnjak celebration (2026 Christmas Eve, Serbian Christmas celebrations)
Romanesco broccoli 2025 G2

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Fungi

Young Macrolepiota Grass Ooty Jul26 A7CR 11715-60 zsd
Under Macrolepiota Grass Ooty Jul26 A7CR 11472-515 zsp
White Fungus Lentinus Ooty Jun26 A7CR 11026-70 zsp
Mucronella flava - 18 images - Tillamook, Oregon

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Historical

Ramones rocket to russia photo
2nd Infantry Division, E-1 draw, Easy Red sector, Omaha Beach, D+1, June 7, 1944
Martin Van Buren by Mathew Brady c1855-58 sepia original restored
Lunch atop a Skyscraper - Charles Clyde Ebbets

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Historical · Historical portraits

Natural phenomena

Auroras in Estonia
Sunset at Coal Oil Point
Udu lahkub järvelt
G5 aurora over Tuntorp, Lysekil Municipality 15

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Natural phenomena · Weather

Objects

Zeiss Icon slide viewer Ikoscop BW 2026-07-12 16-21-36 fs
Schlepperpier - Bremerhaven 01
Brooks Ghost 14 GTX
Boeing B-17G Sentimental Journey N9323Z HGR MD8

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» Land vehicles · Rail vehicles · Water transport · Air transport · Geology and chemistry · Sculptures · Architectural elements · Monetary items · Others

Other lifeforms

A Swirl of a Day for Phytoplankton (154086)
Scanning electron micrograph of a human H9 T cell infected with HIV virus particles
Algal mat in Marine Park (90933)
Alfombra de algas amarillas, parque nacional Ras Muhammad, Egipto, 2022-03-27, DD 42

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People

Drying the cottom silk fabric
Woman Baby Mane Spiti Jun18 DSC05475
Venezuelan woman of 94 years old from Margarita island
A Sattriya dancer performing the dance form in Assam, India2

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People · Working people · Portrait

Photo techniques

Exam tables - France
Tocumen International Airport alt
The pier at Velenje Lake (Velenje, Slovenia, 2026)
Music Express at Herbstmess Freiburg 2023

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Composites and Montages · Styles and Techniques · Modern black and white photos

Places

2024 Bazylika w Wambierzycach (06)
Pointe de Veret from Lac de Veret (5)
Little Missouri in Theodore Roosevelt NP ND1
Shark Observatory Bay 2024-08-31 1

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Agriculture · Architecture–Exteriors · Bridges · Castles and fortifications · Palaces · Cemeteries · Cityscapes · Industry · Interiors · Natural · Religious buildings · Religious buildings–Interiors · Religious buildings–Ceilings · Satellite images · Settlements · Others · Towers · Transport · Roads · By country

Plants

Beilstein - Schmidhausen - Müller-Thurgau-Weg - gelb-rote Tulpenblüten mit Regentropfen (RQCD2782)
Phalaenopsis July 2020-2
Bloem van een Zwanenbloem (Butomus umbellatus), 16-06-2026. (d.j.b.)
Leucanthemum superbum silverspoons May 2026-1

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» Plants · Asparagales (asparagoid lilies) · Asterales · Fagales · Ranunculales · Rosales

Space exploration

The Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft is in the grasp of the Canadarm2 robotic arm (iss074e0378294)
Zhuque-2E propellant dump over Wisconsin
Curiosity Self-Portrait at 'Big Sky' Drilling Site (PIA19920)
At Sardinia 2025 010 - Sardinia Radio Telescope