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[h=2]Oryx, Namibia [/h] Photograph by Mikael Stiller This Month in Photo of the Day: 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest Images Oryx captured in Namib-Naukluft National Park in Namibia just after sunset. They are heading through the dunes in search of food and water.
[h=2]Pheasant, Italy [/h] Photograph by Michel Giaccaglia This Month in Photo of the Day: 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest Images This pheasant is proudly calling to mark its territory spotted with poppies, and seems to like to wear one of them as a mask—the right face at the right place for the right shot.
Photograph by Weimin Chu This Month in Photo of the Day: 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest Images When the dark falls and tourists rest, the town of Hallstatt comes back to peacefulness. As fog winds around the spire of the famous Parish Church, and the blue tint of the rainy night is decorated by warm light, the town really looks like a fairyland.
[h=2]Bear Cub, Alaska [/h] Photograph by Douglas Croft This Month in Photo of the Day: 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest Images This yearling cub was "fishing" with his mom at Brooks Falls, Alaska. Mostly, he was getting in her way. Suddenly he became quite agitated and ran from the water and into a tree right next to the viewing platform where we were standing. It provided the best photo op of our trip.
[h=2]Cappadocia, Turkey [/h] Photograph by Sukru Mehmet Omur This Month in Photo of the Day: 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest Images During a lovely sunrise in autumn, the view from the sky was wonderful at Urgup, Cappadocia, Turkey. The colors are going from green to red in a spectacular moonlike landscape.
[h=2]Skier, Afghanistan [/h] Photograph by James Robertson This Month in Photo of the Day: 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest Images A young Afghan skier in the province of Bamyan takes to the slopes on homemade skis. The skis are made from wood and metal and fasten to his feet with string and chain. He has been inspired by seeing Western tourists who are traveling to the area in ever increasing numbers to take to the remote slopes of the Hindu Kush.
[h=2]Pink Anemonefish [/h] Photograph by Mike Ricciardi This Month in Photo of the Day: 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest Images This is a photo of a "family" of pink anemonefish in and around their host anemone. If you look closely you can also see the small anemone shrimp (tiny white eyes) in and around the anemone.
[h=2]Cheetah and Cubs [/h] Photograph by Scott Belt This Month in Photo of the Day: 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest Images This mother cheetah, with five cubs nearby, made it clear that her limits had been met (or exceeded).
November 27, 2012
[h=2]Tour Guide, Vietnam [/h] Photograph by Matthew Nelson This Month in Photo of the Day: 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest Images A Vietnamese lady waits for passengers for a journey on the Thu Bon River in Hoi An Ancient Town. Increasing competition from locals for the tourist dollar means many of the local tour guides are left to wait.
[h=2]Sunrise, Saxony [/h] Photograph by Jens Elste This Month in Photo of the Day: 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest Images Sunrise from the Bastei. It was the first sunny day in our country this year. The Bastei is a rock in our sandstone mountains in Saxony, Germany.
[h=2]Weedy Sea Dragon [/h] Photograph by Richard Wylie This Month in Photo of the Day: 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest Images The camouflage that weedy sea dragons use to hide in the temperate marine vegetation they derive their name from is so successful that once they reach adulthood they have no natural predators. Unfortunately they are still at risk due to habitat destruction. The males of the species carry the bright pink, fertilized eggs underneath their tails for about two months before the fully formed young hatch and are left to fend for themselves.
[h=2]Medici Villas, Italy [/h] Photograph by Giacomo Baldi This Month in Photo of the Day: 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest Images A guard at a Medici villa in Poggio a Caiano, Italy, enjoys a cigarette at the end of the day.
[h=2]Caucuses, Russia [/h] Photograph by Vittorio Sella This Month in Photo of the Day: Vintage National Geographic Photographs Two men look toward mountain peaks in the Caucuses in this photo by Vittorio Sella that dates to around 1896. Sella was a mountaineer and a pioneering high-altitude photographer who captured images from many of the world’s great mountain ranges.
[h=2]Deer, Michigan [/h] Photograph by George Shiras This Month in Photo of the Day: Vintage National Geographic Photographs Two deer are seen at night on Grand Island, Michigan, in this early flash photograph by George Shiras, who pioneered both the first flashlight photos and the first trip-wire photography of animals at night. A box of photographs that Shiras brought to National Geographic in 1905 yielded the first nighttime wildlife photographs ever published. They appeared in the July 1906 issue of the magazine.
[h=2]Women With Cherry Blossoms, Japan [/h] Photograph by Eliza R. Scidmore This Month in Photo of the Day: Vintage National Geographic Photographs In a tinted black-and-white photograph dating to around the 1910s, women pose with cherry blossoms in Japan. Photographer Eliza Scidmore served as the National Geographic Society's first female writer and board member and played a pivotal role in bringing the now beloved cherry trees to Washington, D.C.'s Potomac Park and Tidal Basin.
[h=2]Great Sphinx, Egypt [/h] Photograph by Donald McLeish 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.
[h=2]M'Sila, Algeria [/h] Photograph by Franklin Price Knott This Month in Photo of the Day: Vintage National Geographic Photographs A circa 1926 autochrome image by Franklin Price Knott shows a group of men in M’Sila, Algeria. An autochrome series by Knott composed the first color photographic essay to be published in National Geographic.
[h=2]Boat Ride, Japan [/h] Photograph by Kiyoshi Sakamoto This Month in Photo of the Day: Vintage National Geographic Photographs In this photo published in the July 1921 issue of National Geographic, kimono-clad passengers enjoy a boat ride down the Hozugawa River in Kyoto, Japan, an activity that remains a popular summer pastime of the region. Photographer Kiyoshi Sakamoto contributed photos to the magazine for more than a decade in the period between the two World Wars.
[h=2] Musician, Spain [/h] Photograph by Jules Gervais Courtellemont, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: Vintage National Geographic Photographs A man plays his guitar for a young girl in Grenada, Spain, in this autochrome picture that appeared as part of a photo essay in the March 1929 issue of National Geographic. An early master of autochrome photography, Jules Gervais Courtellemont was one of the first to embrace the technology when it became commercially available in 1907.
[h=2]Woodcarvers, India [/h] Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic This Month in Photo of the Day: Vintage National Geographic Photographs National Geographic photographer Maynard Owen Williams captured this image of woodcarvers in Amritsar while on assignment for a July 1921 story covering India. A pioneer of travel photography, Williams joined the staff of National Geographic in 1919.
