Explain the Photo of the day - Photography review
SUNDAY SWIM
Sisters play in a river after church in Grantsville, Maryland. The March 1998 story followed the path of the United States' first highway.
NEIGHBORHOOD SERENADE
A man serenades his neighbors in the town of Juazeiro do Norte in northeastern Brazil. When this picture was published in March 1987, the impoverished area had a per capita income of half the national average.
WALKING FOR WATER
In northern Kenya, Gabra women spend five hours a day hauling water in heavy jerry cans. The entire April 2010 issue was dedicated to water, with this specific story focusing on what women could achieve in their communities if they had easy and immediate access to water.
VIGOROUS VINES
A November 2008 story looked at the destruction of Borneo's forests for the palm oil industry. This photo shows some of the lush greenery under threat, with liana vines growing up and around trees that are more than 150 feet tall.
CORN DOG CHOMP
At the 2008 Iowa State Fair, 8,400 fairgoers made history when they participated in the first Corn Dog Chomp setting the Guinness World Record for the most people simultaneously eating corn dogs.
LOVELY LAPONIA
Tangled strands of the Rapa River flow below the slopes of Sarek National Park, one of six reserves that make up Sweden's Laponian Area World Heritage site.
BIOFUEL BAGS
An October 2007 story examined the industry of biofuels. This photo shows bags of algae hanging outside of a power plant near Phoenix, Arizona. At the time, researchers planned for the green scum, fed by power plant exhaust, to soak up carbon dioxide while cranking out thousands of gallons of biodiesel each year.
ST. PATRICK'S PARADE
The September 1974 issue featured a profile on Boston, including this festive photograph of a St. Patrick's Day parade.
PEACEFUL PANDA
A captive panda enjoys some bamboo in the afternoon sun at the Wolong Nature Reserve in China. Giant pandas are endangered, and a Chinese national program raises captive-born pandas that will one day be released into nature reserves and other protected areas.
FLYING FALCONS
In this picture from the February 1984 issue, the Royal Jordanian Falcons perform an air show above the Wadi Rum. Pilots for the Falcons are all members of the Royal Jordanian Air Force, and compete for four-year postings on the team.
CLOSING SHOP
Quartzsite, Arizona, is a hot spot for RVers in the winter, welcoming some 1.5 million every year. The camp is full of vendors, like this baked-potato-and-pies stand.
COMBAT CANINE
The cover story of the June 2014 issue was "The Dogs of War," detailing combat canines and their handlers in the U.S. Armed Forces. In this photo, a Belgian Malinois named Dino and his handler practice how to carry a wounded dog.
PARADE UNDER PALMS
In Bali, Indonesia, women carry offerings of food on their heads as they march three miles to the sea. The picture appeared in a 40-page travelogue titled "Bali by the Back Roads" in the November 1969 issue.
IN THE HOTHOUSE
In this photo from the February 1984 issue, workers tend to cucumbers in a plastic hothouse in the Jordan River Valley. At the time, the valley only 10 percent of the nation's cultivated land was producing 75 percent of the nation's crops.
MARKET MEETING
In this image from 1909, two women chat at a market in La Paz, Bolivia. Writer and photographer Harriet Chalmers Adams wrote in the accompanying story, "If La Paz is a peacock, the market place is its tail."
SHALL WE DANCE
A story in the July 2006 issue celebrated different forms of dance all over the United States. Here, members of the Alayo Dance Company in San Francisco perform "A Piece of White Cloth," which combines modern, Cuban, and African styles.
VALLEY VOYAGE
When this photo was published in the December 1989 issue, a hard day's ride lay between the nearest dirt road and Francisco Arce's ranch in the Sierra de San Francisco mountains in California.
MONTHLY CHECK-UP
In the village of Gunjalwadi, Maharashtra, India, a one-year-old girl gets weighed during a check-up. A watershed program in this village led to improved crops, nutrition, and prosperity.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
Artist Georgia O'Keeffe sits next to her painting "Black Place III," a rendering of one of her favorite places of inspiration in New Mexico. The 1980 portrait by George F. Mobley was republished in the October 2013 issue, which celebrated 125 years of National Geographic photography.
BLAST OFF
In this unpublished photo from 1969, President Lyndon B. Johnson, First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, and Vice President Spiro Agnew are among the hundreds of people watching the launch of Apollo 11 at Kennedy Space Center.
ANTARCTICA MOON
The moon, lit by the coming sunrise, reflects in the icy waters around Antarctica. The continent is the coldest, windiest, driest, and darkest place on Earth.
WATERING HOLE
Doves, lions, and elephants compete for space at a watering hole during the dry season in Chobe National Park, Botswana. Normally, elephants would avoid such proximity to lions, but as the March 2000 story stated, "water is more vital than caution."
MORNING NEWS
In Steelton, Pennsylvania, a man reads the newspaper while waiting for the barbershop to open. This photo appeared in a March 1985 story that followed the winding path of the Susquehanna River, the largest river by length and volume in the eastern United States.
GREAT SPHINX, EGYPT
This Month in Photo of the Day: Vintage National Geographic Photographs In 1928 National Geographic Editor Gilbert H. Grosvenor wanted "outdated" photographs of the Great Sphinx of Giza images made prior to excavation removed from the archive. This 1921 photo by Donald McLeish survived and has been in the image collection for over 90 years. See more pictures from the archives
MUSICAL TRADITIONS
In Dimen, a small village in Guizhou Province, China, children learn traditional songs from elders. The Dong people have no written version of their language, Kam, so it is passed down orally, often through song.
WINTER NAP
A polar bear and her cub sleep in the snow. The bears are waiting for the Hudson Bay to freeze over so that they can spend the winter hunting seals on the ice.
ANCIENT HISTORY
At the Castle of Simancas, Spain, a scholar works with ancient texts. The castle holds more than 30 million documents, dating from the 12th through the 19th centuries.
BERBER BRIDES
A Berber groom kisses his bride at a mass wedding in Taarart, Morocco. Berbers living in rural areas of Morocco carry on cultural traditions that have lasted at least 5,000 years.
MIGHTY GOAT
A mountain goat perches on a wall of the Stikine River Grand Canyon in British Columbia, Canada. Mountain goats' unique hooves allow them to travel where their predators wolves, bears, and cougars cannot.
SANDSTORM PRAYERS
Uygur pilgrims pray at the graves of Islamic saints during the Imam Asim festival near Hotan, Xinjiang Province, China. The Uygur people are a Muslim minority in China, heavily persecuted by the Chinese government.
TENTS ON ICE
Double-layered tents shelter researchers from wind in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. As part of an expedition in the mid-1980s, scientists dove in the sound, with water temperatures around 28 degrees Fahrenheit.
ANCIENT LANGUAGES
There are fewer than a thousand Seri people in Mexico, meaning their native language is fading fast. Isabel Chavela Torres is blind and almost completely deaf, but she still passes on as much traditional knowledge as she can.
WINTER SUN
At the Lower Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park, dead trees create makeshift sun dials. On the horizon, steam from thermal pools is visible.
BURMA ROAD
Naga tribeswomen walk along what's left of the Burma Road in Myanmar. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops and Asian workers carved the route through unforgiving jungles to serve as an Allied supply line between China and Burma during World War II and hundreds of them lost their lives to disease, accidents, and Japanese attacks.
FAMILY RESEARCH
The Leakey family archaeologist Louis, paleontologist Mary, and son Philip examine a campsite of a prehistoric manlike creature in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, after discovering its fossils in 1960. Louis later went on to found The Leakey Foundation, which continues the work of studying human prehistory.
PENGUIN PACK
In this picture from the November 1971 issue, a gentoo penguin wears radio backpack that provides scientists with data on its blood flow and pressure.
CARNIVAL CELEBRATIONS
In this picture from the November 1971 issue, a woman in an elaborate costume celebrates Carnival on the island of Trinidad. The annual celebrations include parades, calypso music, and limbo competitions.
ANGRY HIPPOS
Hippos fight in the Luangwa River, Zambia, as their water supplies shrink toward the end of the dry season. Zambia has the largest population of hippos in all of Africa.
ROMANTIC MOSCOW
An August 2008 story documented the seemingly mysterious world of Moscow at night. Here, a flash mob congregates to kiss among the crowd near Red Square.
LONDON LOVE
A couple shares a tender moment on a summer Sunday in London. A sweeping story in the June 2000 issue posited that London had returned to the world stage for the first time since the 1960s.
LINCOLN'S HOME
Abraham Lincoln lived in this home in Springfield, Illinois, for 17 years before becoming the 16th President of the United States. Today, the home and surrounding land are preserved as a National Historic Site.
SEA SCIENCE
Oceanographer Sylvia Earle shows engineer Peggy Lucas a handful of algae through the window of the Tektite habitat. They were two of five women who lived in the underwater habitat for two weeks in 1970, studying various aspects of marine life.
ICED OVER
Ice and snow encrust the workings at an oil rig in western Siberia. Oil is a key component of Russia's economy; the country is the second largest exporter.
JUST DANCE
A woman dances to bomba music at a bar in Loiza Aldea, Puerto Rico. The music originated more than 200 years ago with Africans who had been enslaved by Spanish colonizers to work the island's sugar plantations.
KATHMANDU KITES
Children fly kites at a boarding school in Kathmandu, Nepal. Their parents are Sherpas on Mount Everest, some of whom risk their lives in hopes of making enough money to provide a more secure future for their families.
FOOTBALL NIGHTS
Artesia High School's football team has claimed the New Mexico state champion title 30 times since 1957. When this picture appeared in the September 1993 issue, up to 10,000 fans would pack the stadium for big games as many as the whole town's population.
PRIZED PORTRAITS
Candidates compete for admission to the prestigious Repin Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia. This photo originally appeared in the September 1998 issue in a story tracking the lasting influence of Catherine the Great, who expanded and renamed the famous school in 1764.
FRIGID FOX
An arctic fox sits under a full February moon in Manitoba, Canada. The animal's fur turns from brown in summer to white in winter, allowing it to blend into the snowy landscape.
SNOW DAYS
The January 1958 issue featured a story on a seven-week winter festival held the previous year in Quebec City, Canada. One of the attractions was this 1,400-foot toboggan hill.
STATE OF THE UNION
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt reads his annual address to the members of Congress in January 1937. This photo represents the first time a color camera recorded a joint session in the Hall of Representatives.
WHOOPER SWAN
In Oulanka National Park, Finland, a whooper swan prepares for takeoff in the morning mist. The swan, whose wings can span up to nine feet, is the national bird of Finland.
FIERY INCENSE
In Malacca, Malaysia, a man lights large incense sticks outside of a Taoist temple to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Malaysian people with Chinese heritage make up almost a quarter of the country's population.
SNOW DAYS
Residents of Amman, the capital of Jordan, enjoy a late winter storm in this picture from the February 1984 issue. Snow isn't uncommon in Amman, as parts of the city are at a higher elevation.
JAPANESE BRIDE
Dressed in a white kimono, a Japanese bride sits by a window as her neighbors in Kyoto come to view her on her wedding day. This picture appeared in an April 1990 story about changing societal expectations for Japanese women.
SOMBRERO GALAXY
After having a new camera installed in 2002, the Hubble Space Telescope captured this picture of a galaxy nicknamed Sombrero. It's a third of the size of the Milky Way galaxy, and brighter than 400 billion suns.
RUSH HOUR
Commuters in the early '80s rush to pack into a subway car in Mexico City. Now, the system carries an estimated 1.6 billion people every year.
ON SET IN IRAN
This picture from the July 1999 issue shows Iranian film director Bahram Beyzai, in green, shooting a movie seven years after national censors took issue with his previous project. The actress in traditional Baluchi garb is Mozhdeh Shamsai, who is also married to Beyzai. A close-up of her appeared on the cover of this issue.
BUNGLE BUNGLE RANGE
Over 370 million years, wind and rain have shaped the sandstone domes of the Bungle Bungle Range in northwest Australia. The distinctive formations cover 175 square miles and were made a national park in 1987.
POET'S HOME
This cottage in Alloway, Scotland, was the birthplace of poet Robert Burns. Considered the national poet of Scotland, Burns is arguably most famous for the poem "Auld Lang Syne," which is often sung on New Year's Eve.
ALASKAN SCHOOLHOUSE
Eight children make up a one-room schoolhouse in Trapper Creek, Alaska, in this picture from the April 1969 issue. The kids' parents were homesteaders, people who participated in a federal program to claim land as their own by meeting a few requirements.
MONKEYING AROUND
Two juvenile Japanese macaques, or snow monkeys, play in the snow in Jigokudani, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Snow monkeys can live to be about 30 years old.
FULL FLIGHT
A story in the December 1953 issue celebrated 50 years of aviation. For this photo of a full TWA flight leaving Washington, D.C., for the West Coast, the original caption hailed the innovation of flying coach, which made the once luxurious form of travel more accessible to the masses.
NUTS ABOUT SQUIRRELS
The November 1995 issue featured a 16-page story titled "In Praise of Squirrels." In this picture, a visitor to the White House gardens dashes off with a peanut meant to deter him from eating flower bulbs.
PENGUIN KINGDOM
A photographer kneels among a colony of 10,000 king penguins on South Georgia Island. If you look closely you can tell each penguin is incubating an egg resting on its feet.
CASTLE ICEBERG
A formation known as "Castle Iceberg" rises 100 feet in the air on Cape Evans, Antarctica, in this image from the March 1924 issue. Photographer Herbert G. Ponting was the official documentarian of Robert F. Scott's expedition from 1910-1913.
DR. KING'S DREAM
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, a federal holiday celebrating the birthday of Dr. King.
SACRED CEREMONIES
In this photo from the December 1950 issue, monks flank the Patriarch of the Cathedral of St. James, the Armenian Church in Jerusalem. The ornate service was held on Maundy Thursday, which remembers the day Jesus Christ washed his disciples' feet the day before his crucifixion.
ANCIENT ART
The February 1988 issue celebrated Australia's bicentennial. One story covered Kakadu National Park, protected land leased to the government by Aboriginal people. This photo shows cave paintings in the park thought to be 20,000 years old.
REINDEER DAYS
A herd of reindeer travels through a valley in Siberia. This photo originally appeared in the August 1977 issue, in which photographer Dean Conger wrote about his career documenting the Soviet Union.
UNDER THE BRIDGE
In Isfahan, Iran, a betrothed couple and their chaperone relax on a bridge. This photo originally appeared in the July 1999 issue, documenting Iran under President Mohammad Khatami, who advocated for a more open society.
STURDY OAK
An oak tree stands tall in Delaware Park, Buffalo, New York. The March 2005 issue featured a story about famed urban park designer Frederick Law Olmsted.
WINTER DIP
The air is 20 degrees below zero, but an overflowing thermal spring near Gardiner, Montana, makes this portion of the Yellowstone River a delightful place for a winter dip.
PRAYER FLAGS
A monk hoists prayer flags during Losar, the Tibetan New Year, in Lhasa, Tibet. During the 15-day celebration, observers participate in a series of rituals to set the course for the year ahead.
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