| 2016-3-seychelles-tortoises | | Picture of giant tortoises on the island of Grande Terre, Seychelles | | Aldabra giant tortoises escape searing daytime heat by taking refuge in caves within the rugged coral rock of the island of Grande Terre, Seychelles. It’s a slow, cumbersome commute between the caves and the tortoises’ grazing areas.
See more pictures from the March 2016 feature story "In the Seychelles, Taking Aim at Nature's Bullies."
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| 2016-2-hampi-star-trails | | Picture of star trails in Karnataka, India | | Your Shot community member Alexander Grabchilev submitted this image of star trails over Karnataka, India. He made this photo while visiting Hampi, a UNESCO World Heritage site and the location of the extensive ruins of the Hindu city of Vijayanagar, built in the 14th through 16th centuries.
Grabchilev explains his process for photographing the star trails: “I [did] about a hundred shots with a 40-second exposure, one by one, and [the shots were] stitched in post-processing.”
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| 2016-2-costa-rica-tree-frog-red | | Picture of a red-eyed tree frog in Costa Rica | | While exploring in Vara Blanca, Costa Rica, Your Shot photographer Sammantha Fisher captured this image of the nocturnal red-eyed tree frog. By day, these amphibians sleep stuck to leaf bottoms. When disturbed, they flash their bulging red eyes to shock predators.
“I had seen a very large waterfall from the roadway that I hoped to explore and get a better shot of,” says Fisher. “I hiked down a hill into a heavily forested area, making it very difficult to still see the waterfall, and with the daylight fading, I decided to turn back. As I turned around a red-eyed tree frog hopped onto a leaf in front of me, staring right at me. I was able to slowly step away … lifting my camera and taking the shot before it jumped much higher to the next leaf.”
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| 2016-2-inle-lake-fishermen | | Picture of men fishing in Myanmar | | Your Shot member Marco Marcone snapped this artfully framed shot of fishermen balancing on small fishing vessels on Inle Lake in Myanmar. “I was in a boat a little bit larger than that of the fishermen in the photo," he writes. "Honestly, they were just there for tourists … Anyway, I tried to do something new. I [hadn’t] seen anyone before [put] the camera and himself inside the fishing net!"
Marcone’s shot was recently featured in the Daily Dozen.
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| 2016-2-philippines-camp-fog | | Picture of people camping in the Philippines | | While awaiting sunrise atop Osmena Peak in Cebu, an island province in the Philippines, Your Shot member Mc Daniels Cirunay saw an opportunity for another photograph. “I was waiting for the sun to come up, but the fog was so thick so I looked the other way and saw this,” he writes. “The fog was moving fast because of the speed of the wind, so I waited for the fog to open up a bit and show something from the camp and the peak.”
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| 2016-2-paris-nye-kiss | | Picture of a couple kissing on New Year's Eve in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris | | Few cities are more romanticized than Paris, and Your Shot member Chenkun Long was able to capture that spirit in this image from New Year’s Eve, taken near Palais de Chaillot and the Eiffel Tower. “People were cheering for joy [at midnight], and this couple started to kiss and wished to have a romantic and happy 2016,” Long writes.
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| 2016-2-southern-ground-hornbill-eye | | Picture of a detail of a southern ground-hornbill's eye | | Vertebrate eyes—like this eye of a juvenile female southern ground-hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri)—are all variations on the same basic design, which functions much as a camera does.
See more pictures from the February 2016 feature story "Inside the Eye: Nature’s Most Exquisite Creation."
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| 2016-2-black-sand-sunrise | | Picture of icebergs in Iceland | | “The place has its unique appeal,” Your Shot member Hardik Desai writes of Iceland’s Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon. “Dawn happens two hours before sunrise, and the sunrise colors usually last almost 90 minutes if there are no clouds.” A day after scouting out the location, Desai drove 30 minutes to arrive at the lagoon in time to capture the sunrise, hoping for exactly this result.
Desai's shot was recently featured in the Reflection story.
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| 2016-2-beijing-scaffolds | | Picture of workers on scaffolding in Beijing | | The 2008 Beijing Olympics brought a construction boom to the city; while it has slowed since then, the construction hasn’t ceased. Your Shot member Rou Yu came across these workers lit from behind on staging—likely erected to celebrate the Chinese New Year—between the Bird’s Nest, or Beijing National Stadium, and the Beijing National Aquatics Center, known informally as the Water Cube.
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| 2016-2-herons-entwined | | Picture of two herons in a tree in Florida | | Yellow-crowned night herons (Nyctanassa violacea) are usually dormant during the day, but Your Shot member Christine Sandberg caught these two apparent lovebirds in action one afternoon in a park in Pinellas County, Florida. “I noticed something different in their movements and behavior this day. I slowly approached them, they slowly approached each other up in the foliage,” Sandberg writes. “Suddenly—a touch from a beak, and the look of love in their eyes.”
Sandberg’s shot was recently featured in the Daily Dozen.
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| 2016-2-monument-valley-snow | | Picture of Monument Valley in snow | | At the end of a four-week road trip, Your Shot member Tyler Lekki ran into some bad luck: a flat tire. He stayed the night in a local hotel in Monument Valley National Park in Utah, and his fortunes turned around when he was able to capture this sunrise shot of the park’s towering sandstone buttes after a light coating of snow.
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| 2016-2-warsaw-gecko | | Picture of a gecko in a terrarium in Warsaw | | This pet Mediterranean house gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus) that lives with Your Shot members Dariusz Kucharski and Kornelia Kucharska is a well-fed critter. Here, it pokes its head out from behind leaves in a colorful terrarium as its Warsaw-based owners drop live crickets into the enclosure.
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| 2016-2-seychelles-tern-flight | | Picture of a white tern flying near a beach in the Seychelles | | A white tern flits through regenerating native forest on Cousine, a private island off the coast of Praslin and one of Seychelles’ ecological restoration successes. A luxury resort helps pay for the island’s conservation projects.
See more pictures from the March 2016 feature story "In the Seychelles, Taking Aim at Nature's Bullies."
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| 2016-2-oia-sunset-scene | | Picture of the sunset in Oia, Greece | | While visiting Oia, on the Greek island of Santorini, Your Shot member Soroush Etemad was “mesmerized by [the] captivating beauty” of this sunset. Beneath a palette of orange and red, a large gathering of people stood on castle ruins to watch the sun go down over the Aegean Sea.
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| 2016-2-javan-sulfur-miner | | Picture of a laborer carrying large chunks of sulfur in Indonesia | | Your Shot member Maciej Dakowicz had always wanted to see Kawah Ijen in Indonesia and made sure to find his way to the crater on his first visit to the country, despite the arduous path to get there: a two-hour uphill hike, followed by 45 minutes of trekking down into the crater. Although only at the crater on Java Island for a few hours, Dakowicz had "a very memorable day." He watched miners go up and down the crater, doing the dangerous job of carrying heavy baskets of sulfur, sometimes called devil's gold. Every day, 300 or so miners make the two-mile climb to the top of the volcano and haul out 150 to 200 pounds of sulfur at a time.
Dakowicz’s shot was recently featured in the Daily Dozen.
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| 2016-2-darjeeling-red-panda | | Picture of a red panda inside a zoo enclosure in Darjeeling, India | | A red panda appears to be deep in thought at the Darjeeling Zoo in West Bengal, India, home to a breeding center for the endangered animals. The red panda (Ailurus fulgens) has seen its population reduced by approximately 50 percent over the last two decades. The Darjeeling Zoo’s red panda program, which began in 1994, currently has six males and six females after two of the animals died in 2015.
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| 2016-2-tadami-train | | Picture of a train conductor on a train in Japan | | Your Shot member Akinori Koseki was the only one on the train platform in the wee hours of the morning during this snowstorm in Fukushima, Japan. The photographer caught this train conductor checking his watch just moments before the 5:30 a.m. train was due to pull out of Aizu-Kawaguchi Station on the regional Tadami Line. Despite the heavy snowfall, the train left on time—helped in part by arriving at a station with no customers.
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| 2016-2-shwedagon-night-temple | | Picture of Shwedagon temple in Myanmar at night | | “Shwedagon temple is one of the most photographed icons in all of Myanmar,” writes Your Shot community member Brett Rylance. To get the shot they were hoping for, Rylance’s guide had to plead for access to the top of an office building. “Our guide and I wanted an aspect not often seen: We wanted Shwedagon's sacred pagoda atop Singuttara Hill at sunset with Yangon’s pulsing city elements below to create juxtaposition.”
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