Church of Rodel, Outer Hebrides
Download Wallpaper (1600 x 1200 pixels) The 15th-century church of Rodel on the Isle of Lewis, built for the warlike chiefs of the MacLeods, towers over the sea lochs of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. Nothing in early modern Britain, from its cities to its remotest corners, was more political than religion. The church in every parish—nearly...
Day by Day: Submerged Plane, Bahamas
Download Wallpaper (1600 x 1200 pixels) While island hopping around the Bahamas in a Cessna C172 aircraft, I made this aerial of a Curtiss C-46 that ditched on November 15, 1980. It crashed while it was on a drug smuggling mission for the Colombian Medellín drug cartel and lies in shallow water east of the...
Aerial View of New York City
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Ice Canyon, Greenland
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Owyhee River, Idaho
http://nationalgeographic.com photo by Michael Melford Download Wallpaper (1600 x 1200 pixels) See more pictures from the November 2011 feature story, “Boundless: America’s Wild and Scenic Rivers.”
Merced River, Yosemite
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Blue Pond, Hokkaido
Photograph by Kent Shiraishi Click on the image to get its larger version. The “blue pond” of the famous tourist resort in Biei, Hokkaido, Japan is a place where many tourists gather in spring, summer, and autumn. However, since this pond freezes in winter, nobody is there during that period. This photograph was taken during...
The People Who Walk with Reindeer
Photograph by Erika Larsen Johan Kuhmunen, with his dog Cammu, lives in Sweden, but the summertime range for his family’s herd crosses into Norway. The Sami tradition of learning from the elders is an important part of reindeer herding, and knowledge is passed down from generation to generation and not learned in books. www.erikalarsenphoto.com You...
Day by Day: Waterslide
Photograph by James L. Stanfield, National Geographic. nationalgeographic.com
Brooklyn Bedroom
As vivid as a dream, a hypersharp image of the Brooklyn Bridge and lower Manhattan materializes above tousled sheets. To make the surreal picture, Morell essentially put his camera inside a room serving as a camera and kept his shutter open for five hours to expose on film the incoming image. He used a prism...
Brave Girl Superclimber
Kate Rutherford can’t hear a thing while climbing so close to the roar of Yosemite Falls. She can’t find much to hang on to either. The water polishes the rock “like glass.” Wearing tape on her hands, she has to repeatedly jam them into fissures for the ascent. Spectacular scenery makes up for the discomfort....
