Merit Award: David Steele Canon Rebel K2 camera and the National Geographic Photography Field Guide. David Steele of Chantilly, Virginia, who is in the middle of a two-year trek around the world, caught this cat on the fly at the Nga Hpe Chaung Monastery on Inle Lake, Myanmar. "I avoid tourist shtick like the plague, but these jumping cats appealed to me," he says. "Cats are contrary, so it's a feat to train one to do tricks." (Nikon D100, Nikkor 50mm lens, digital image.)