Commons:Photo challenge/2025 - June - Steam

2025 – June – Vapor

The new challenge features Steam.

Ideally, each submission should contain a summary description of the subject in the file information, including the location of the subject, and relevant categories should be added to the files to enable other Commons users to find them and use them. Please take care not to violate copyright in respect of non-free creative works, and observe our educational project scope and the personality rights of identifiable people, or your files may be subject to deletion.

The challenge will remain open for submissions throughout June UTC.

Checklist for this theme:

• Photographs must be the work of the nominator.
• Photographs must be newly uploaded to Commons during the challenge submission period i.e. June 2025 UTC (but may have been taken earlier).
• Submissions must be added to the top of the "Entries" section below.
• Please do not nominate lots of similar photos; instead choose just your best and most varied images.

Add your entry between the <gallery> tags as indicated. Gallery entries are placed each on a new line, and consist of the filename, a vertical bar |, and a description. For example:

Electric steam iron.jpg|An electric steam iron

For help on the syntax of entries in a gallery see Help:Gallery tag. Please do not add square brackets [[ ]] or include a thumb parameter or the full URL. The File: prefix is not required, but harmless.

• Restriction: A maximum of four entries can be submitted per photographer.

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  Old, uninhabited house in town, in the mist.
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  Saga Ruby Oslo2
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  Saga Ruby Oslo1
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  Küstenkraftwerk Kiel
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  Kraftwerk Rostock
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  Fog in Ustka seaside resort
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  steam being kept inside thermal bottle
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  steamed dim sum inside steamer
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  steam came out from hot pot
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  steam came out from beer factory (Tsingtao Brewery Museum)
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  Vapore che sale da cumuli di compost, a seguito del calore prodotto dai microrganismi
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  Furka Steam Railway
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  Val Sinestra. View of Vnà.
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  Mist mystery in Ustka seaside resort
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  View from Motta Naluns.
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  Sinter terraces full of steam in the morning sun, Lower Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park
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  Norris Geyser Basin: the steam caused the forest to die, Yellowstone National Park
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  Wet cooling of coke at Kokerei Schwelgern, the big coking factory in Duisburg, Germany
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  Tajine-chef standing in the steam of his simmering Tajines, Chefchaoun, Marocco
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  Kraftwerk Boxberg bei Nochten in Sachsen. Blick vom Findlingspark Nochten.
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  Im Winter In Sankt-Petersburg, Russland.
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  Morgendampf auf dem Wolchow-Fluss in der Nähe des Wolchow-Wasserkraftwerks. Leningrader Gebiet, Russland.
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  Traditionelle Dampfschiffparade auf der Elbe in Dresden, Sachsen.
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  a cup of tea
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  a cup of tea from above
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  Treno a vapore nella stazione di Pontassive in occasione della Befana]]
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  Artificial fog produced by municipal water supply company in ustka
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  Sunrise over the Camel Estuary at Padstow, Cornwall, England
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  Cafe in Seville, Spain, blowing down cold air
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  "Triptych" of Strokkur geyser during an eruption.
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  Sulfur fumaroles (solfatares) in the geothermal area of Seltún / Krýsuvík, Iceland.
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  Cup of hot coffee with steam
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  Lower clouds over Trapani
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  Cloud over the city
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  fog looms above Berchtesgaden national park and lake
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  Fog descends on a small town in Bavaria.
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  Mission Peak Sunset
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  Morning mist of Gueishan Island in the Summer.
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  Boiling samovar
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  Cooling towers of Kalinin nuclear power plant
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  Steam engine of the Furka Dampfbahn heading toward Furka Pass, Switzerland
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  Crossing of steam trains at the Furka Pass in Switzerland
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  Gösgen Nuclear Power Plant in Switzerland
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  Steam from the chimneys of the boiler house, Moorburg coal-fired power station, Hamburg, Germany
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  Steel mill of Thyssen-Krupp-Stahl with steaming cooling tower of the coking plant, Duisburg-Walsum, Germany
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  Rasender Roland, steam locomotive 99 4632-8, manufacturer Stettiner Maschinenbau AG Vulcan, year built 1914, at Binz station, Rügen, Germa
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  Brockenbahn, steam locomotive 99 7237-3, manufacturer LKM, year built 1955, on the summit station of The Brocken (Blocksberg), Germany
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  Vasca e sorgenti di acqua calda sulfurea al Parco della Mola di Oriolo Romano
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  Highway worker in an unusual situation
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  Boiling water
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  Plant Vogtle in Waynesboro, GA, USA
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  Clouds at sunset; Lublin, Poland
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  Steam on a locomotive 01 519 during the Plandampf in 2005
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  Steam from the cooling towers of the Cattenom Nuclear Power Plant through the cloud coverage
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  Water vapor from condensing boilers illuminated by the rising sun
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  Steam of the locomotive 378.78 (“Sissi“) of the Cuckoo Railway
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  Factory in New York City 2025
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  Smugi kondensacyjne - Contrails
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  Smugi kondensacyjne - Contrails
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  Clouds
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  Clouds
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  'Caldeira Grande' at 'Lagoa das Furnas', Azores, P
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  On the jetty between boiling mud pools on São Miguel, Azorez, P
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  Vapor 4
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  Vapor 3
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  Vapor 2
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  Vapor soaring high at Jammu Srinagar highway
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  Vapor rising around the hill
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  Hazy scenery of the sulfur vapor coming out at Xiaoyoukeng in Yangmingshan National Park while the thick morning fog occurs on the top of Mt. Qixing
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  A cumulonimbus cloud was flashed lightning inside the clouds, photographs from the terrace of Lengshuikeng Visitor Center at night.
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  Volcanic steam, Tateyama, Japan
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  Eisenbahnjubiläum in Nürnberg
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  Layer clouds; Cumulus, Cirrus fibratus
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  A foggy morning over Górki Czechowskie in Lublin
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  The fog stayed for the whole day, Lublin, Poland
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  Paris 2024 Summer Olympics cauldron
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  Paris 2024 Summer Olympics cauldron
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  Ремонт подземных коммуникаций на Манхэттене
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  Steam from the subway in New York City
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  Clouds over Grenzgletcher, Switzerland
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  Fog rises from the Lake Pukaki, over the Mount Cook. (NZ)
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  Lady Knox Geyser Wai-o-tapu in 2010 -(NZ)
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  A child sits alone near some clouds.
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  Vapore che sale dalla vasca termale grande in San Casciano dei Bagni
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  Vapori che salgono dal torrente all'interno del Parco di Villa Ada a Roma in un giorno di inverno
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  A window in the clouds offers a glimpse of the mountains of Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park - Spanish Pyrenees, Spain
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  Clouds float through the snowy mountains of Dovrefjell. With Snøhetta on the right side of the photograph - Norway
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  A Common Crane during migration in the valley of the Glomma near Evenstad - Norway
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  The Borreguiles (high mountain peatlands) on the slopes of Pico Veleta - Sierra Nevada, Andalucía, Spain
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  A steam well in Hakone, Japan
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  Thunderstorm lightning of the cumulonimbus clouds above the distant of Yilan plain at night on 2025-05-20 because of strong water vapor from the northeast monsoon
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  Asap Hitam Kebakaran Pinggir Jalan Raya.
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  Grand Geyser in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming in the USA
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  Grand Prismatic Spring in Midway Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming in the USA
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  Grotto Geyser in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming in the USA
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  Sunrise at Black Sand Basin in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming in the USA
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  Storks in the field
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  Cloud pattern
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