Photo of the Day: Best of August 2012
By National Geographic, 5 September 2012.
By National Geographic, 5 September 2012.
1. River House, Serbia
Photograph by Irene Becker, My Shot
A house in the middle of the Drina River near the town of Bajina Basta, Serbia. (This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
2. Shoreline, Japan
Photograph by Akira Takaue, My Shot
Kitaibaraki City, Japan. (This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
3. Aspen Forest, Colorado, USA
Photograph by Ron Azevedo, My Shot
A leaf-covered road entering the deep aspen forests of Colorado. (This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
4. Water Park, Peru
Photograph by Liesl Marelli, My Shot
El Circuito Mágico del Agua in Lima, Peru, South America, is a beautiful water park that comes alive at night with young women celebrating quinceañeras, children playing in the water, and even adults partaking in the excitement. The nights are magical in Lima but my most fond memory was the night I spent at El Circuito Mágico del Agua. (This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
5. Woman, Train Platform
Photograph by Rossella Scalia, Your Shot
"Be sincere: it never crossed your mind to want to see yourself live? You pay attention to living for yourselves, and rightly, with no thought of what in the meanwhile you might be for the others; not because you care nothing about the opinion of others: on the contrary, you care a great deal; but because you live in the blissful illusion that the others, outside, must picture you to themselves as you pictures yourself." - Luigi Pirandello
(This photo and caption were submitted to Your Shot. Have a great shot? Send it to us for possible publication in National Geographic magazine.)
6. Park, United Kingdom
Photograph by Yi Hsien Lee, My Shot
Two girls wear little going home regardless of the freezing temperature. But it's quite common in the U.K. (This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
7. Fireflies
Photograph by Teruo Araya, My Shot
The dream of the night of summer. Many Japanese visualize the dead's soul, seeing the light of a firefly. It is charmed by the light of a firefly as if it was seeing the momentary dream.
(This photo and caption were submitted to Your Shot. Have a great shot? Send it to us for possible publication in National Geographic magazine.)
8. Ice Cave, Slovenia
Photograph by Peter Gedei, My Shot
Ice caves are melting; that's a fact. In an ice cave on the mountain of Stojna near Koƒcevje, Slovenia, the situation has been very dramatic for years. Since 1991 almost four meters of ice have disappeared in the entrance chamber, but at the bottom of the cave emerges a new one. The entrance of this cave faces toward the southeast, which is not common for ice caves. Because of that, the whole area around the entrance is important, and even one cut-down tree can cause huge losses of ice in the cave. (This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
9. Northern Lights, Iceland
Photograph by Fred Schalk, My Shot
On this night northern lights had been predicted, so I decided to find a nice spot on the Reykjanes peninsula. However, the sky wasn't very cooperative, especially in the far distance, so on my way over I stopped near an abandoned house, where it was less cloudy. In some ways the outcome was really not so bad because the clouds, the blue spots in the sky, the green northern lights, and the orange reflection of the Reykjavik city lights all mixed together in a multicolour light show. (This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
10. Circle of Sparks
Photograph by Alex Coppel, My Shot
Used burning steel wool combined with a moon-filled night to create this amazing effect over a long exposure. (This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
[Source: National Geographic. Edited.]
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