20080429
April 29, 2008
Lightning Behind Chimney Rock, Colorado, 1989
Photograph by James L. Amos
Trails of lightning backlight Chimney Rock in southwest Colorado's San Juan National Forest. Home to ancestors of the Pueblo Indians more than 1,000 years ago, the area around Chimney Rock has been a designated archaeological area and national historic site since 1970.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Life and Times of William Henry Jackson: Photographing the Frontier," February 1989, National Geographic magazine)

20080430
April 30, 2008
Paragliders in the Clouds, Mount Fuji, Japan, 2002
Photograph by Karen Kasmauski
Paragliders float through the clouds that surround snowcapped Mount Fuji in Japan. At 12,388 feet (3,776 meters), Fuji is Japan's highest peak. But its relatively easy-to-scale flanks draw flocks of amateur climbers to its summit—some 400,000 every year.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Fuji: Japan's Sacred Summit (Except When It's Not)," August 2002, National Geographic magazine)

好有个性，真不错啊．值得欣赏

20080501
May 01, 2008
Tundra Village, Moriusaq, Greenland, 2006
Photograph by David McLain
The tiny village of Moriusaq stands on the frozen landscape of northwest Greenland. The sea ice near this settlement used to be thick enough to travel and hunt on for hundreds of miles for up to ten months. Recently though, climate change has reduced this crucial window to just a few weeks each year.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Last Days of the Ice Hunters," January 2006, National Geographic magazine)

20080502
May 02, 2008
Hatchling Alligators, Big Cypress Swamp, Florida, 1994
Photograph by Chris Johns
Hatchling alligators break free of their shells in Big Cypress Swamp in the Florida Everglades. Babies who have trouble emerging get a surprisingly delicate assist from the tooth-lined jaws of their mother.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Everglades: Dying for Help," April 1994, National Geographic magazine)

20080503
May 03, 2008
Afar Goat Herders, Ethiopia, 2005
Photograph by Carsten Peter
Afar goat herders use a reed mat to shield their campfire from the steady winds of the Ethiopian Danakil Desert. The Afar are a nomadic people who drive their camels, donkeys, and goats in search of the region's scant pasturelands. Centuries of defending their territory and their herds has made them fierce. One Afar custom, now defunct, declared a man could not marry without first killing an enemy tribesman.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Africa's Danakil Desert: Cruelest Place on Earth," October 2005, National Geographic magazine)

20080504
May 04, 2008
Tie-Dyed Fabric, Jaipur, India, 1999
Photograph by Cary Wolinsky
Tie-dyed fabric is hung to dry from a roof in Jaipur, India. Such Indian textiles are among the richest craft legacies on Earth, encompassing literally thousands of local styles and techniques.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Quest for Color," July 1999, National Geographic magazine)

20080505
May 05, 2008
Migrating Monarchs, El Rosario Preserve, Mexico, 2004
Photograph by Peter Essick
A colony of monarch butterflies clings to a tree in the El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Preserve in the mountains of central Mexico. The Mexican government is working to encourage tourism and discourage illegal logging in the preserve, where millions of these delicate orange-and-black butterflies come to nest each winter.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Signs From Earth: Heating Up…Melting Down…" September 2004, National Geographic magazine)

20080506
May 06, 2008
Boatyard at Sunset, Yscloskey, Louisiana, 2001
Photograph by Medford Taylor
A mauve sunset blankets a boatyard in Yscloskey, Louisiana, in 2001. This and nearly all the other fishing hamlets in the marshlands of St. Bernard Parish southeast of New Orleans were flattened in the summer of 2005 by Hurricane Katrina's 20-foot (6-meter) storm surge. Years later, the region's fisheries and oil and gas industries are still rebuilding.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "ZIP USA: Delacroix, Louisiana," July 2001, National Geographic magazine)

20080507
May 07, 2008
Green Grappler Moth Caterpillar, Maui, Hawaii, 2003
Photograph by Darlyne Murawski
Sensitive hairs and nerves on the back of the green grappler moth caterpillar detect the slightest touch of prey. Lightning-fast reflexes and six needle-tipped claws spell the end for this termite in Maui, Hawaii.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Killer Caterpillars: Built to Eat Flesh," June 2003, National Geographic magazine)

20080508
May 08, 2008
Bathing Snow Monkey, Japan, 1995
Photograph by Jodi Cobb
Japanese macaques, also called snow monkeys, live farther north than any other non-human primates. Their thick coats help them survive the frigid temperatures of central Japan's highlands. But when the mercury really plummets, they go to plan B: hot-tubbing in the region's many thermal springs.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Geisha," October 1995, National Geographic magazine)

20080509
May 09, 2008
Manoki Indian, Amazon River Basin, Brazil, 2007
Photograph by Alex Webb
A Manoki Indian in a feathered headdress and beads glides down a stream in Brazil's Amazon River Basin. The Manoki are one of about 170 indigenous Amazonian peoples whose homelands are imperiled by an intense land rush in the Amazon fueled by the timber, agriculture, and cattle industries.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Last of the Amazon," January 2007, National Geographic magazine)

20080510
May 10, 2008
Desert Wildlife, Atacama Desert, Chile, 2003
Photograph by Joel Sartore
Birds perch on a cactus as a gray fox warily stands below in Chile's Atacama Desert. Rain rarely falls on the Atacama's coastline, but dense fog known as camanchaca is abundant. The fog nourishes plant communities from cactuses to ferns.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Driest Place on Earth," August 2003, National Geographic magazine)

祖国大好河山很好.

20080511
May 11, 2008
Mother Camel and Baby, Sahara, Chad, 1999
Photograph by George Steinmetz
A young dromedary camel peeks underneath its mother as she casually drinks in the Guelta Arche?, a steep canyon in the Chadian Sahara. But camels beware. These isolated waters hold a zoological surprise: Algae, fertilized by camel droppings, are eaten by fish that are preyed upon by a group of crocodiles.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Journey to the Heart of the Sahara," March 1999, National Geographic magazine)