Eye saw this: the top 10 most popular Guardian Eyewitness images

As the Guardian Eyewitness app relaunches, we list the top 10 most popular and most shared images from the past 12 months
  
  


Extreme jacuzzi, a popular image from the Eyewitness series
6 October 2011, the most viewed Eyewitness photograph: A group of 25 extreme jacuzzi enthusiasts have a soak suspended 150 metres above the ground from the New Gueuroz bridge in Switzerland. The event took about 2,500 hours to plan and a further six hours to assemble – all for 2.5 hours in the tub. This image has been viewed 450,877 times in the app. Photograph: Sebastien Martinet/SWNS.com
Eyewitness extra: Gentoo and chin strap penguins
20 October 2011, second most popular photograph: Gentoo and chin strap penguins swimming near Danko Island on the Antarctic Peninsula. This image has been seen 448,680 times in the app. It was also the fourth most shared image with 5,743 shares. Photograph: David Doubilet/Caters News Agency
Eyewitness extra: Cape gannet
11 November 2011, third most popular photograph: A Cape gannet looms large in a prizewinning image from the World Press Photo exhibition. The gannet has a wingspan of almost 2 metres and can hit the water at up to 75mph. This photograph was seen 446,501 times in the app.
Photograph: Thomas P. Peschak Photograph: Action images
Eyewitness extra: Mardi Khola valley
28 October 2011, the most shared and fourth most viewed Eyewitness image: The Milky Way as seen in the Mardi Khola valley in the Himalayas, with clouds of galactic dust illuminated in red by young stars. Anton Jankovoy braved freezing temperatures for this shot during a trek in Nepal. This images was viewed 443,994 times and shared 9,075 times in the app. Photograph: Anton Jankovoy/Caters News Agency
One World Trade Center
26 August 2011: One World Trade Center soars above the 9/11 memorial. It will have 105 floors and be 1,776ft tall, a reference to the year of the Declaration of Independence. This is the sixth most popular image in the app with 437,095 views. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters
Eyewitness extra: Lake Natron
28 October 2011: Conservationists are fighting plans to build a soda ash plant at Lake Natron, the only breeding ground of the lesser flamingo, beneath the volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai in Tanzania. This was the fifth most popular image, seen 443,994 times in the app. Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images
Eiffel tower lightning strike
1 September 2011: This picture, by amateur photographer Bertrand Kulik (a concert violinist), of a lightning bolt appearing to strike the Eiffel Tower, is included in an exhibition of images of lightning strikes across France held in Issy l'Évêque in Burgundy. It was shared 7,890 times from the app, the second most-shared image of the past year. Photograph: Bertrand Kulik/Caters News Agency
Alpaca farm
1 May 2012: Alpacas after their annual shearing at Alpaca-Land farm, Goeming, near Salzburg. This was the third most shared image, with 7,388 shares. Photograph: Kerstin Joensson/AP
A food stand at the San Diego County Fair in Del Mar
1 July 2011: Visitors to the San Diego county fair try the latest in American cuisine: deep-fried butter, chocolate-covered corn dogs and chocolate-covered bacon. This was the fifth most shared image with 5,742 shares. Photograph: Mike Blake/Reuters
Eyewitness extra: Seabright State Beach in Santa Cruz, California
29 October 2011: Kayaker Alan Brady is surprised by two breaching humpback whales off the coast of Seabright State Beach in Santa Cruz, California. This image was shared 4,339 times from the app. Photograph: Paul Schraub/AP
 

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