A picture is worth a thousand words, right? So imagine what 1,550 pictures have to say. That’s the number of entries we received in the 15th annual Travel photo contest, and were they ever eloquent, a veritable encyclopedia of the world and its many wonders. Our contestants really got around — from Italy to Indonesia, from Alaska to Australia, from Savannah to Santa Fe — and their subjects ran the gamut: There were mountains and deserts, rainbows and rain clouds.