Photograph by Jeffrey Gusky, National Geographic
During World War I, the deadlock of trench warfare led both the French and German sides to tunnel beneath enemy positions. Here, the scars of artillery barrages still pockmark the ruins of a fort at Chemin des Dames, France, where some 30,000 French troops died during ten days in April 1917. Underground, French and German forces tried to penetrate each other s tunnels, sometimes fighting hand to hand in pitch-black passageways.
Photograph by Terence West , National Geographic Your Shot
Local children wave flags to celebrate Victory Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, as a plane passes overhead. Victory Day, which occurs each year on December 16, honors the victory of the Allied High Command over Pakistani forces in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.
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Photograph by Logan Watts , National Geographic Your Shot
A leopard gingerly crosses the branch of an acacia tree in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. We were almost back to camp when someone in our party spotted this solitary leopard from well over a hundred meters, writes Your Shot member Logan Watts . As we slowly approached, it seemed relaxed and began to move up a branch in profile. The dappled foliage and powerful limbs of the acacia paired with the spotted muscular pose of the cat seemed fitting for black and white.
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Photograph by Jim Richardson, National Geographic
The Stones of Stenness may be Britain s most ancient stone circle. Erected during the Stone Age on the Orkney Islands at the northern tip of modern-day Scotland, the stones likely formed part of a larger complex linked by religious ritual.
Photograph by Kinga Sztok , National Geographic Your Shot
Pollen dusts the petals of a flower in Galway, Ireland, in this close-up by Your Shot member Kinga Sztok . What I love about macro photography is that it reveals the amazing details that are not visible to the naked eye, or things we're too busy to notice each day, writes Sztok.
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Photograph by Luke Aveil , National Geographic Your Shot
Fitzroy Gardens in Melbourne, Australia, takes on an ethereal quality in the light of a streetlamp, emanating deep hues of jade and emerald. It reminds me of somewhere magical out of a fairy-tale story, a small piece of tranquility in the middle of a bustling city, writes Luke Aveil , a contributor to Your Shot. Named after Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy, the gardens receive over two million visitors each year.
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Photograph by Joe Hsu
A surfer rides a wave as it crashes onto the shore at Palm Beach in New South Wales, Australia, giving the ocean an otherworldly appearance. Palm Beach, a northern suburb of Sydney, is home to two Surf Life Saving clubs one dating back to 1921.
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Photograph by Anup Shah and Fiona Rogers, National Geographic
The oldest chimp in Gombe and undisputed matriarch of the S family, Sparrow, a 56-year-old female (second from the right, looking up) and two generations of offspring enjoy a tight-knit grooming session. Sparrow is a tough old bird, observes Carson Murray, who followed her for several seasons. She raises strong, competent daughters, Murray says, but her sons are mama s boys.
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Photograph by Andrew Hara , National Geographic Your Shot
Lava glows red-hot, churning and rumbling in Kilauea Volcano s Halemaumau Crater in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. It is quite an experience when Earth feels incredibly large and one feels microscopic and insignificant in comparison, writes Your Shot member Andrew Hara .
"I was able to legally access the edge of Halemaumau crater while volunteering for the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park," Hara explains. After cautiously hiking through a closed-off area of the national park, respirator in tow, Hara deployed his tripod and camera. I carefully set the timer for two minutes and walked around to the farther, visually stable edge of the crater to create this self-portrait.
Hara s picture recently appeared in the Your Shot assignment Embrace the Untamed .
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Photograph by Zab Coloma , National Geographic Your Shot
Dancers catch a few winks on the pavement before a performance at the Philippine International Convention Center in Manila. Since they were designated the penultimate number, they decided to take a nap so they would be adequately rested when their time came, writes Zab Coloma , a member of our Your Shot community.
Coloma s picture recently appeared in Your Shot s Daily Dozen .
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Photograph by Hidenobu Suzuki , National Geographic Your Shot
Mount Fuji looms over Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, after a heavy rainstorm. When I took the photos in a breathless silence, I had a strong feeling that the Earth was alive and had a soul, writes photographer Hidenobu Suzuki .
Suzuki s picture recently appeared in the Your Shot assignment Embrace the Untamed .
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Photograph by Simon Kwan , National Geographic Your Shot
Hong Kong s breathtaking skyline takes on a dizzying effect in the darkness. It is a forest made by the buildings, writes Your Shot member Simon Kwan , who made the one-and-a-half-hour journey to the top of Beacon Hill to capture the cityscape.
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Photograph by Keith Szafranski , National Geographic Your Shot
"On my last day in Antarctica photographing emperor penguins at their nesting grounds, I came across this little hole (a little more than a foot across) in a small piece of blue ice," writes Keith Szafranski , a member of our Your Shot community. Originally hoping it would make a good frame for the landscape, Szafranski then saw a string of penguins moving toward it. "I stuck my camera with a wide-angle lens into the hole and waited."
Szafranski's picture recently appeared in the Your Shot assignment Embrace the Untamed .
Photograph by Nicola Chilton
Thousands of performers dance in unity at the Arirang Mass Games in Pyongyang, North Korea. In the background, schoolchildren hold colored booklets to create each pixel of the nation s flag. The two-month-long festival depicts the story of North Korea through gymnastic and artistic expression.
This photo and caption were submitted to the 2014 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. Winners will be announced July 31.
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Photograph by Steffen Reichle , National Geographic Your Shot
A cloud of butterflies descends upon the Tucavaca Valley in eastern Bolivia. In years with shorter, wetter dry seasons, millions of butterflies will arrive at the beginning of the rainy season. We probably saw several millions of butterflies in the approximately ten miles that we drove through the valley, writes photographer Steffen Reichle , who waited 11 years to get this shot after first visiting the region in 2001 without a camera.
Reichle s picture recently appeared in Your Shot s Daily Dozen .
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Photograph by Jaco Marx , National Geographic Your Shot
Zebras gather by the dusty Boteti riverbed in central Botswana. After driving off the main game route, photographer Jaco Marx lay down on his stomach, surrounded by herds of migrating wildebeests and zebras, and began clicking. After a few seconds the zebra turned away and disappeared into the thicket, writes Marx.
Marx s picture recently appeared in Your Shot s Daily Dozen .
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Photograph by Carsten Peter, National Geographic
Members of a British-led expedition pause at a subterranean lake on the way to Titan Chamber in southern Guizhou Province, where it rains more than 50 inches a year. The lake appears and disappears as the rains come and go.
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Photograph by Franck Boutonnet
A lone tree on the edge of the city seems to stand as a testament to Dubai s changing landscape. The burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis is home to some 2.1 million people.
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Photograph by Terence West , National Geographic Your Shot
Red storm clouds hang heavy over Spring Creek, Queensland, Australia. Photographer Terence West had been chasing the storm across the Southern Downs when he captured this image of the back of the storm just as the sun was going down. It made me feel that nature was at peace after the anger of the storm, he wrote.
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Photograph by Oscar Medina , National Geographic Your Shot
A foal snuggles up to its mother at a private zoo in Quer taro, Mexico. I was attracted by the newest member of a family of horses that was running around the field, writes Medina. I decided to approach to touch him. When I was close, he decided to take cover under his lovely mom.
Medina s picture was recently published in Your Shot s Daily Dozen and the Your Shot assignment The Power of a Smile .
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Photograph by Mitsuhiko Kamada
Endangered red-crowned cranes wade through frosty waters on a cold morning in Tsurui, Hokkaido, Japan. Here, they're considered one of Japan's hundred soundscapes a nationwide effort meant to combat noise pollution, promote the environment, and create symbols for local people of everyday life in Japan.
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Photograph by John Stanmeyer, National Geographic
A pre-Islamic people, Nabataeans carved palatial tombs at Madain Salih. In 2008, UNESCO named Madain Salih a World Heritage site, making it the first destination in Saudi Arabia to receive the title.
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Photograph by Sanjeev Bhor
Blue water swirls with green at Pangong Lake in Ladakh, India. The Himalayan lake lies on the Sino-Indian boundary and is the subject of many territory disputes between China and India.
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Photograph by Ben Neale
A herd of elephants roams the orange-tinged landscape of the Okavango Delta in Botswana.
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Photograph by Bonnie Flamer
Sand dunes spill through the doorway of a reclaimed home in the ghost town of Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop, formerly home to a diamond mine, was abandoned in 1954 after the precious mineral was depleted.
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Photograph by Mark Bridger , National Geographic Your Shot
A young female otter runs toward photographer Mark Bridger at a wildlife center in Lingfield, Surrey, in England. I ve always wanted to try and get a shot of an otter running straight at me with all four feet off the ground, writes Bridger. They were like really little dogs the way they chased each other around, so I lay on the ground with a 300mm lens on my camera and tried to capture one running straight at me.
Bridger s picture recently appeared in Your Shot s Daily Dozen .
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Photograph by Eduardo Lopez Negrete
A large school of mobula rays fades into the waters of Baja, Mexico. The rays were moving quite fast and it was hard enough keeping up with them from the surface, let alone diving down to take a closer look, writes photographer Eduardo Lopez Negrete. Mobula rays are often referred to as flying rays due to their fondness for breaching.
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Photograph by Michael Perry
As the sun sets on San Francisco s Golden Gate Bridge, a Pacific coast fog rolls in, mingling with low clouds to submerge the iconic structure, says photographer Michael Perry. Tourists and locals alike drive along the city s trademark hillsides, hoping to capture the moment for themselves.
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Photograph by Halszka Tutaj-Gasinska
A wooden boat floats down a canal in Venice. The Italian city is one of the most visited destinations in the world its old section receives up to 80,000 tourists a day.
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Photograph by Jonathan Chua Kiat
A timeless trio goes on its way in Xiapu, a county in eastern China. "I like the mood and the character in the scene," writes photographer Jonathan Chua Kiat. "It s just like a fairy tale come alive."
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Photograph by Piotr Pabisiak
A Palestine sunbird (also known as the northern orange-tufted sunbird) seeks nectar on a sunny day near the Sea of Galilee in Israel. "It took just a few seconds to take the picture, and I did it!" writes photographer Piotr Pabisiak on his entry to the Traveler Photo Contest. "This is an amazing bird."
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