We were taking shots in the southwest of Serengeti, Tanzania. This location is known as Hidden Valley and was full of animals from the great migration.
This pregnant zebra came out of the dust for a second to take a look at me. She was the perfect poser! Head straight, ears up, legs in line, tail accentuating her curving body while the herd in the background created the perfect stage of dust!
—Caption by Giedo van der Zwan
SourceAutomat, New York City
Patrons line up "like payday depositors" in a bank, waiting to drop a few nickels in a slot for favorites like baked beans and Salisbury steak, freshly made each day and kept in "post-officelike boxes." This New York City Automat, described in the March 1942 National Geographic, was part of an East Coast chain that sold 72,000 pieces of pie a day.
SourceÉcole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
At the École des Beaux-Arts
SourceAtom Bomb Test, Bikini Atoll
The second atomic bomb tested in Operation Crossroads
SourceBoy and Turkey, Guatemala
A boy playing in a marketplace with a strutting old gobbler entertains Chichicastenango visitors by doing the son, a dance popular throughout Guatemala.
SourceAttack Bomber Assembly, California
Nose assemblies for Douglas A-20 attack bombers
Antarctica LabDr. Edward Atkinson in his Antarctica lab
SourceFestival, Thailand
Locals do everything they can to bring in good luck and get rid of bad luck. For ten days straight fireworks are thrown at the processions, and many men and women pierce their cheeks with huge objects like meter-long poles, guns, and lamps.
SourceDivers, Louisiana
Swimming and diving are on the curriculum of Newcomb College. The college-for-women branch of Tulane University bears the name of H. Sophie Newcomb, the only daughter of Mrs. Josephine Louise Newcomb, whose gifts to the institution amounted to three million dollars.
SourceLight and Shadow, Agra, India
The fall of light, Agra
SourceMaynard Owen Williams Self-Portrait
Reflection of photographer Maynard Owen Williams in a storefront window
SourceBus Terminal, New York
This Month in Photo of the Day: Images from the National Geographic Archive
Travelers rest on benches in a Greyhound bus terminal.
SourceJapanese Destroyer, Pacific Ocean
Final moments of a Japanese destroyer
SourceCrowded Street, Kathmandu
Kathmandu has become such a chaotic place. The streets are crowded and everyone is doing their own thing. This image depicts the activities on the street, which juxtaposes with the stillness of the mother and child on the street.
SourcePersian Scholars, Iran
With the exception of their veils, these girls of Barfurush, near Meshed-i-Sar, look, dress, and act like American girls in an Italian district—an interesting sidelight on the New Persia.
SourceGingerbread Fair, Paris
This Month in Photo of the Day: Images from the National Geographic Archive
At the Gingerbread fair, Place de la Nation
SourceHorse Rider With Boleadoras
"When Luis Marden dropped in by air from Säo Paulo, he demanded gauchos…"
SourceHigh Heels on Cobblestones, Louisiana
Because the region around New Orleans is composed of alluvial soil, there is no paving material close at hand. More than a hundred years ago the city offered a bounty to ships which would bring to the port rock ballast instead of sand. The first cobblestone pavement was laid on Gravier and Magazine Streets in 1817.
SourceSampling Arctic Ocean Water
Fridtjof Nansen takes a reading of deep Arctic Ocean water temperature as part of the expedition's scientific work. Astronomical, meteorological, and oceanographic data were consistently collected.
SourceTokyo Street
This is a gentleman rounding a corner in southern Tokyo along the railway.
SourceChildren Playing in Rain, Bangladesh
This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Environment
Children playing in seasonal rains are a great sight of monsoon and six seasons here in Bangladesh. The effect of climate change is making this rare as less or more rain is causing great disturbances around the country. Heavy rain causes floods and landslides, and makes millions homeless and takes the lives of many others. The climate should behave like normal for our future children to play like this in monsoon rains, and people must take responsibility to reduce pollution and save our world.
SourceLowland Gorillas, Bronx Zoo
Animal Photos
This photo of two lowland gorillas was taken at the Bronx Zoo in New York City. This is part of a series of photos I call Bronx Zoo Diaries.
SourceHidden Face
I found this woman waiting for her husband after finishing her work. Her eyes are very interesting for me.
SourceHumpback Whales, Tahiti
When you swim with humpback whales it's not their size that overwhelms you but their beauty. You want to stay in that moment forever. These three humpbacks came over to me to check me out. They put on a beautiful dancing display that makes your heart stop and you wish for the moment to never end. When they were done ten minutes later they took off but left me with amazing memories. Tahiti, French Polynesia.
This photo and caption were submitted to the 2008 International Photography Contest. See photo galleries, play jigsaw puzzles, and download wallpaper of images from more than 105,000 submissions.
SourceLightning Model
Westinghouse engineers use this miniature system for tests. Upper wires detour the three-million-volt harmlessly to the ground. Lower wires, which carry the power load, are thereby protected against lightning, which might shut off the current or damage equipment. Even the cows are man-made.
