Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest 2012

Smithsonian is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The first issue was published in 1970.
History
The history of Smithsonian began when Edward K. Thompson, the retired editor of LIFE magazine, was asked by the then-Secretary of the Smithsonian, S. Dillon Ripley, to produce a magazine "about things in which the Smithsonian Institution is interested, might be interested or ought to be interested."