51 Spectacular Photos of Our World From National Geographic

1. "Ohshi is a village on the Tadami river in Japan that has chosen co-existence with nature rather than urban development."Teruo Araya

2. 51 SPECTACULAR PHOTOS OF OUR WORLD

3. "Blue pond, stellar sky."Nao Akimoto

4. "Taken at Ise in the Mie prefecture in Japan. You Iwata

5. Women praying during the
month of Ramadan inside
Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta
which is the biggest mosque
in southeast Asia."Pradeep
Raja

6. "A panorama from two shots. Lofoten, Norway."Sergey Lukankin

7. An aerial view of the beautiful fall colors of New Hampshire. Manish Mamtani

8. The Yamuna river is most polluted when it flows through Delhi, muddy and full of filth. Yogesh Gupta

9. "I have waited to shoot this
location for over six years. I tried
once to capture it, but could not
find it. Finally, on a layover at 2
am, I found it and had to get on
my back to shoot straight
up."Andrei D.

10. "The marble caves of Patagonia“.Clane Gessel

11. "A freediver swims in the deep of "swallows cave" in Tonga. The fish offer you a spectacular ballet when you dive inside."Marc Henauer

12. "The flow of fog at dawn was like the waterfall."Daisuke Matsui

13. "Mount Bromo volcano is a small but active volcanic cinder cone on Java, Indonesia. In early 2016, I happened to be there during an increase in seismic activity."Reynold Dewantara

14. "Traveling through Cuba in a vintage 1950 Chevrolet with a speedometer which no longer works. Lorraine Yip

15. "Yakushima is an island full of abundant moss and beautiful water."Tetsuya Hosokawa

16. "'Little Eyewitness' was taken at the Jigokudani Monkey Park in Nagano, Japan in December 2016. Hidetoshi Ogata

17. "Taken in Mishima in Fukushima prefecture, Japan
during the fire festival held every February. Teruo Araya

18. This photo was taken in Jujing, an ancient village in China. Hua Zhu

19. "This photo was taken during sunrise in Bagan, Myanmar."Felipe Carranza

20. "Taken from the highest residential building in Asia: The Zenith in Busan. Albert Dros

21. "This building is apartment
complex in Gifu prefecture of
Japan. It is very colorful, but it
is an ordinary collective
housing where ordinary people
can live.Tetsuya Hashimoto

22. "Cherry blossoms reflected in perfect condition."Hiroshi Tanita

23. "I expressed the visit of spring. Wild birds are also gathering for delicious honey. Okayama-shi, Okayama, Japan."Hayashida Masayoshi

24. "This photo captures the moment that I, along with 3 other Sami reindeer herders,
become a little lost while migrating with 350 reindeer. Adam Cunningham-White

25. "Identical Hong Kong, different birdsong."Lester Lau

26. "'Hand tube' fireworks use 3
kilograms of gunpowder. All
fireworks are handmade by the
festival participants. The 400-
year-old festival pays the evil
spirits by the use of fireworks but
it is a very dangerous
festival."Hidenobu Suzuki

27. As the most ancient and grueling
trade in Ethiopia, the salt miners in
the Afar region are still using the
most traditional camel caravan to
carry loads of salt bricks extracted
from the vast salt flats every day.
Tugo Cheng

28. "Lightning strikes lower Manhattan as a summer storm approaches a moonlit New York City skyline."Christopher Markisz

29. Woman on the street while strolling around Old Havana. Lauren Breedlove

30. "The Maze of People."Mohsin Abrar

31. "The mornings in Iceland were not the easiest for me. Dark, cold, and windy. The conditions at
Jökulsárlón exceeded my wildest expectations. Puzzled pieces of ice in various shades of white
and blue, a warm light illuminating the tops of the mountains covered in snow."Mateusz Gorny

32. "Caribbean reef sharks are usually
shy so I placed my camera on a rock
where I know they frequent and
used a remote trigger to click away
as they came in and bumped my
camera around."Shane Gross

33. "This shot was taken in Bucovina,
Romania. Paraschiva is a 80-year-old
woman who lives in a house close to
the hills. There is no electricity but she
can read the prayer with no glasses by
candle light."Radu Dumitrescu

34. "Muslims are attending Jummah prayer on Friday in Baitul Mokarram Mosque at Dhaka, Bangladesh."Sohel Parvez Haque

35. Moraine Lake in Canada. Dave Valler

36. The Kumano Nachi Grand Shrine and the Nachi Great Waterfall are UNESCO World Heritage sites. Hidenobu Suzuki

37. Seda, located in Sichuan province, China,
is the home to Larung Gar Buddhist
Institute, the world’s largest Tibetan
Buddhist institute, founded in 1980 and
inhabited by more than 40,000 monks
and nuns, students, and pilgrims from all
over the world. Anton Gautama

38. "Walking with my wife, Allie, into Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia."Daniel Klazkin

39. "A bridge was built across the dramatic landscape of
Three River Gorges in the Tianshan Mountains for
the transportation of coal mining."Tugo Cheng

40. "Nemuro is the most
easternly town in Hokkaido,
Japan, known for its fisheries
and for being surrounded by
the Sea of Okhotsk (which
separates Russia and Japan).
Chris McCann

41. "Ana, an 84-year-old woman from Holbav, Brasov, Romania."Raul Jichici

42. "People were going home after working a hard day. David Nguyen

43. Mount Fuji is a treasure trove of mysterious shaped clouds. Takashi

44. This photo was taken on a flight above the Þórsmörk Highlands in Iceland. Nils Junker

45. "I was able to capture the silhouettes of the cranes through the morning fog."Hiroki Inoue

46. "Lava falls into the sea. Explosions occurred
and there was warm smoke. My camera
lens got fogged up."Tetsuya Nomura

47. "New Zealand's landscape is jaw-dropping from the
ground level but from the air it was truly breathtaking.
This photo was taken from a small plane flying from
Queenstown to Milford Sound (Fjordland National Park),
the most amazing flight I've ever been on."Jen O'Neill

48. "It was a night in January. We had a record snowfall in Kyoto. Takuya Higuchi

49. "Lake Yogo sometimes reflects everything in front of you."Takahiro Bessho

50. "Tolerating the harsh environment provided me with an opportunity to witness one of many wonders of nature in Wapusk National Park."Nadeem Sufi

51. "This aerial shot was taken in Death Valley National Park from a small plane."Stas Bartnikas

52. "Early morning, just before the sunrise, this big
cloud made a perfect background for this photo.
The rider is our guide that spent 10 years in this
lovely Santa Cruz area in Argentina. Taken during
my recent trip to Patagonia."Tomasz Turczynski

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