Photograph by Vittorio Poli, Your Shot
The small town where I live (Asiago plateau, Italy ) is shrouded in fog in this image taken from the top of a mountain.
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Photograph by Erika Larsen
Johan Kuhmunen, with his dog Cammu, lives in Sweden , but the summertime range for his family's herd crosses into Norway . The Sami tradition of learning from the elders is an important part of reindeer herding, and knowledge is passed down from generation to generation and not learned in books.
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Photograph by George Steinmetz , National Geographic
Evoking a scene from biblical times, caravans arrive at the salt mines of Lake Asele, 381 feet below sea level. For centuries salt blocks, called amole, were used throughout Ethiopia as money.
Photograph by Rutuj Kamdar, Your Shot
A lone shikara boat slices through the peace and tranquility of Dal Lake, the oarsman reflecting on a better tomorrow to come.
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Photograph by Amy Toensing , National Geographic
For generations people in the region have marked cave walls with stenciled handprints. These prints were made with clay-based paint, but in other caves, crimson stains tell the story of a bloody initiation ritual for young men.
Photograph by Nick Brown, Your Shot
A man climbs at sunset in Peak District National Park, England.
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Photograph by Dominic Rubin, Your Shot
Walking along one of the many canals in the ancient city of Suzhou, a stall worker mounts her bike for her commute home, creating a pleasing silhouette set against bold Chinese writing and illuminations on a centuries-old dwelling. Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
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Photograph by Richard Barnes , National Geographic
Against the soaring backdrop of Arizona 's Vermilion Cliffs, the 1929 Navajo Bridge, now used for foot traffic, crosses the Colorado River beside its 1995 counterpart.
Photograph by Gerd Ludwig , National Geographic
Floral flourishes decorate Nurzhol Boulevard, or "Radiant Path."
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Photograph by AchintyaGuchhait Guchhait , My Shot
Kambala is a simple sport played in parts of Karnataka, India . The track used for Kambala is a paddy field filled with slush. It is a race of buffaloes controlled by a whip-lashing farmer. This is a shot taken at Vandar village near Mangalore.
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Photograph by George Steinmetz , National Geographic
Djibouti 's Lake Assal is one of the world's saltiest lakes. Intense heat and strong winds fuel rapid evaporation, leaving a bathtub ring of minerals around the lake's shore.
Photograph by Erika Larsen
On a moonlit night, herders bring the reindeer into temporary tarp-enclosed corrals called gárdi to separate the pregnant females from the rest.
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Photograph by David Konecny , My Shot
Overhead snapshot of the Belgrade riverbank summer love, I guess!
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Photograph by Joel Sartore , National Geographic
Elephants have miles of unbroken savanna to roam inside Uganda 's Queen Elizabeth Park, where their numbers total 2,500, a dramatic rise after heavy poaching in the 1980s. Outside the preserve villagers kill elephants that trample and eat crops, though attacks have diminished with the digging of trenches to protect fields from wild trespassers.
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Photograph by Chris Schmid, Your Shot
Aerial view of Iguazu Falls, Brazil-Argentina border
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Photograph by Chris Cannucciari , My Shot
Lake Malawi, Africa. A stargazer looks into the endless cosmos as waves lap along a beach in Southern Malawi .
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Photograph by Marketa Kalvachova, Your Shot
Icelandic horses are out all year, even through the winter. I captured these in-foal mares in southern Iceland in December 2011.
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Photograph by Byongsun Ahn, Your Shot
A farmer is beginning his day, walking along the rice terraces at dawn.
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Photograph by M Yousuf Tushar , My Shot
Golden fields in Bandarban, one of the hill districts in southeastern Bangladesh
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Photograph by Jim Richardson , National Geographic
For a thousand years, music and ceremony have celebrated the Christian Gospel in Westminster Abbey in London. As the place where generations of English kings and queens have been married, crowned, and buried, this great medieval building embodied King James's cherished fusion of glory and regal authority a visual and aural richness of which the new Bible was to be an integral part.
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Photograph by Bjorn Moerman, Your Shot
While island hopping around the Bahamas in a Cessna C172 aircraft, I made this aerial of a Curtiss C-46 that ditched on November 15, 1980. It crashed while it was on a drug smuggling mission for the Colombian Medellín drug cartel and lies in shallow water east of the Norman's Cay airport in the Exumas, Bahamas. My preflight Internet research paid off!
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Photograph by Jim Richardson , National Geographic
The 15th-century church of Rodel on the Isle of Lewis, built for the warlike chiefs of the MacLeods, towers over the sea lochs of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. Nothing in early modern Britain, from its cities to its remotest corners, was more political than religion. The church in every parish nearly always the most imposing building was as much a symbol of worldly control as a shrine to God.
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Photograph by Byron Yu , My Shot
A woman rests on Jiankou Great Wall, a section of the Great Wall of China near Xizhazi Village.
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Photograph by Wouter van den Heuvel, Your Shot
A photo shot in the Netherlands , in a small town called Boskoop. September mornings usually look great, because on many mornings beautiful mist appears. The kid on the bike was on his way to school and had no idea what kind of beautiful display of light took place right behind him.
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Photograph by David Remacle, Your Shot
One of the highlights of the interior of Iceland: a hot-water pond, charged with silica, glowing in the middle of nowhere.
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Photograph by Patrice Carlton , My Shot
I had planned a recent trip to Thailand in November to coincide with the Loy Krathong celebration because I had seen pictures of the floating lanterns being launched into the sky. However, nothing I had seen prepared me for the incredible magic of experiencing thousands of these lanterns floating into the night sky at once while monks chanted at the Lanna Meditation Center in Chiang Mai. It was one of the most amazing experiences I have ever had.
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Photograph by Frederic Mercnik , My Shot
I saw this scene through the glass in my car. I noticed that a couple was walking toward the scene. I waited for them to get into the frame and clicked the shutter. Shooting through the glass gives the image a real wet feeling.
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Photograph by Alan Nyiri , My Shot
This image was made on the afternoon of October 20, 2011, just before sunset, near Lake Champlain in Vermont.
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Photograph by Chia Ming Chen
The vertiginous "infinity pool" at the Marina Bay Sands resort offers a sweeping view of Singapore, a country that's achieved success while building up instead of out.
Photograph by Jure Kravanja, Your Shot
When I was driving last year through Tuscany, Italy, I suddenly saw this beautiful image.
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Photograph by Juan Jose Acevedo, Your Shot
The light gracefully filters through the complex central vault above the atrium of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar .
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