Aomori Moon

Photograph by Sho Shibata , National Geographic Your Shot

"There was a beautiful morning crescent moon, and the ice was cracking on the frozen lake," says Your Shot contributor Sho Shibata , who had spent the night in his car waiting for dawn on Lake Towada in Aomori, Japan. The peaceful scene wasn't captured without incident: As he walked out to get the shot, Shibata's leg fell through the ice.

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