| 2015-1-market-vendors-lagos-nigeria | | Picture of street vendors at a busy market in Lagos Island, Nigeria | | Vendors hawk goods at one of many markets on Lagos Island, demonstrating the entrepreneurial fervor that has made Nigeria’s economy Africa’s most vibrant.
See more pictures from the January 2015 feature story “Africa’s First City.”
Learn more about Nigeria’s vibrant movie and fashion industries on Proof.
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| 2015-1-bald-eagle-scavenger-food | | Picture of a group of eagles waiting for food, Aleutian Islands, Alaska | | “The bald eagle is an opportunist,” says photographer Klaus Nigge, whose images of bald eagles in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands appear in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic. “He’s a scavenger. Even if food is stinky and old, he’ll take it.” Here, eagles still await a free meal near the home of a woman who used to feed them roadkill and fish scraps.
See more photos from the January 2015 feature story "First Bird."
Hear photographer Klaus Nigge speak about photographing bald eagles on Proof.
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| 2015-1-architecture-art-doha-qatar | | Picture of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar | | A modern spin on Islamic architecture characterizes the exterior of the I.M. Pei-designed Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. As a form of practice, Your Shot member Zeqiant Wang tries to capture the museum from different angles and in different light, here shooting in the early evening. “I had already been waiting there for two hours when I saw a Qatari man in traditional clothes walk by,” Wang writes. “I got my camera ready fast. The walking posture of the man is perfect and can be called beautiful.”
Wang’s picture recently appeared in Your Shot’s Daily Dozen.
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| 2015-1-salt-marsh-aerial-virginia | | Picture of a salt marsh on the eastern shore of Virginia seen from above | | Shooting at Hog Island Bay on the eastern shore of Virginia, Your Shot member Gordon Campbell is inspired by the natural textures, patterns, and colors of the area’s salt marshes, as well as what he calls the seemingly random nature of the "veins" running through them. The scenery, he writes, is in a state of constant change, depending in part on the tides, the season, and the time of day.
Campbell photographs while flying an open cockpit aircraft. “I’m always looking for the unique combinations of pattern and light,” he writes. “When I find an interesting area, I can change angles relative to the sun and fly higher or lower, sometimes just feet above the marsh grasses. The tidal wetlands shown here play a very important part in the ecosystem and are home to a large variety of wetland flora.”
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| 2015-1-wakhi-hunza-pakistan | | Picture of a group of women walking across the Hunza riverbed after gathering wood in Pakistan | | A group of Wakhi women return from a daily excursion across Pakistan’s Hunza riverbed to gather fodder and wood for their cooking fires. Photographer Matthieu Paley has been traveling the world in search of our ancestral ties to the food we eat.
See more photos from Matthieu Paley's culinary explorations in Pakistan and around the world on Proof.
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| 2015-1-szodliget-hungary-mist-cabin | | Picture of a small cabin reflected in a lake on a misty day in Szodliget, Hungary | | “This little lake is a part of my life,” writes Your Shot member Gabor Dvornik, who lives half a mile from its location on a natural reserve in Sződliget, Hungary. “I shoot here nearly every month, sometimes every week. It has a very special air in every season, but to have a nice, misty day is rare, as wind is always present due to the nearby Duna River.”
Seeing the fog during a last glance outside the night before, Dvornik slept only three hours to make it to the lake for a “dream” shoot. “It was utterly ghostly and very moody out there,” he writes. “I felt like I was in a fantasy tale, in an enchanted land. I was so euphoric that I made around 500 captures and walked around the lake two to three times.”
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| 2015-1-oudemansiella-mucida-mushroom-macro | | Picture of porcelain fungus mushrooms, Mount Olympus, Greece | | “I am a big fan of mushrooms,” writes Your Shot member Agorastos Papatsanis. He encountered these specimens on Mount Olympus. “On one of my autumn excursions in the beech forest, I found this amazing porcelain fungus (Oudemansiella mucida). I was drawn to their cyclic hats with the radial paths of the gills, the amazing porcelain texture, and the combination of rain and sun. I used the available bright sunlight as a backlight and enhanced it with an off-camera flash to create this atmosphere.”
Papatsanis's picture recently appeared in the Your Shot assignment Macro.
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| 2015-1-coconut-palm-reflection-india | | Picture of coconut trees reflected in flooded paddy, Kerala, India | | While on a stroll with friends one morning in a village near the Nilambur forest in Kerala, India, Your Shot member Noushad PT noticed the sun streaming through the coconut trees, creating a reflection in the flooded paddy. “I found an opportunity for a perfect black-and-white composition,” he writes. “I added a human element, prioritized the reflection, created symmetry, kept the sky aside—and captured it.”
Noushad PT's picture recently appeared in Your Shot's Daily Dozen.
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| 2014-12-seashell-yellow-macro-abstract | | Picture of a macro shot of an illuminated seashell | | “I came across this sea shell and noticed the delicate patterns when I held it up to the light,” writes Your Shot member Melanie Huff, who made this photograph in Humble, Texas. “I quickly decided that it would make a unique abstract, so I took it home and placed a lamp behind it and snapped a few shots."
Huff's picture recently appeared in Your Shot's Daily Dozen.
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| 2014-12-fashion-hat-cuenca-ecuador | | Picture of a woman wearing an oversize hat on a street in Cuenca, Ecuador | | While strolling in a historic neighborhood in Cuenca, Ecuador, Your Shot member Fikry Botros noticed this outsize accessory lying near an old hat factory. “Then,” he writes, “I noticed a building nearby with this beautiful old yellow wall and a half-open door. I outfitted my daughter with the hat and asked her to pretend as if she were waiting for someone at the entrance of the house. To add mystery, I metered the light on the yellow wall to make the inside of the house dark, and I made sure that the hat completely hid her face. Is she waiting? Is she hiding? Is she guarding the house? Who is she? Why this hat?”
Botros’s picture recently appeared in Your Shot’s Daily Dozen.
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| 2014-12-blombos-cave-archaeology-alvarez | | Picture of an explorer in Blombos Cave on the southern coast of South Africa | | Perched near Africa’s southern tip, Blombos Cave has yielded some of the earliest evidence of symbolic expression, including shell beads, engraved ocher, and ocher-processing kits that are 100,000 years old.
See more photos from the January 2015 feature story “First Artists.”
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| 2014-12-maroon-bells-wilderness-aerial | | Picture of evergreen trees in the Maroon Bells Wilderness in White River National Forest, Colorado | | Evergreen trees populate the Maroon Bells Wilderness in Colorado’s White River National Forest. Photographer Pete McBride argues that management of U.S. wilderness areas—including the introduction of plant and animal species to balance ecosystems—keeps these large swaths of land from being truly wild.
See more from McBride’s ode to wilderness on Proof.
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| 2014-12-wedding-purple-celebration-nigeria | | Picture of guests adorned in purple at a wedding in Lagos, Nigeria | | In Nigeria it’s common to ask guests to wear color-coordinated outfits, called aso ebi, at social events, such as this wedding at the Yoruba Tennis Club in Lagos.
See more photos from the January 2015 feature story “First City.”
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| 2014-12-fog-poplar-kashmir-train | | Picture of a train passing through a clearing of trees on a foggy day in Kashmir, India | | Photographing on a foggy morning near Pampore, India, Your Shot member Sajad Rafeeq waited half an hour for a passing train to complete his composition. “I had reached a village and a few kids guided me to a canal,” Rafeeq writes. “It’s surrounded by poplar trees on both sides, and as soon as I reached it, I saw their beautiful symmetry and also spotted the railway bridge. I framed the composition while having in mind the train that had yet to come.”
Rafeeq’s picture recently appeared in Your Shot's Daily Dozen.
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| 2014-12-snowflake-ice-crystal-macro | | Picture of ice crystals on a car window | | “This photo was taken on a chilly morning in the Austrian Alps during our ski holiday,” writes Your Shot member Horst Bierau. “I was about to clear the car of the freshly fallen snow from the night before and head off to the slopes when I noticed the tiny ice crystals on the car’s windowpane. The dark inside of the car cabin provided the perfect background for this motif.”
Bierau’s picture recently appeared in the Your Shot assignment Macro.
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| 2014-12-traffic-transportation-lagos-nigeria | | Picture of a street crowded with yellow vans on Lagos Island, Nigeria | | The entrepreneurial fervor of the Nigerian capital of Lagos has made that country’s economy the most vibrant in Africa. Here, vans crowd into Idumota Market on Lagos Island to pick up workers returning home to the mainland, where most Lagosians live.
See more photos from the January 2015 feature story “First City.”
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| 2014-12-mexico-mangroves-cenote-diving | | Picture of a diver in the Taj Mahal cenote, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico | | “Timed right, diving a cenote can be a truly magical experience, hugely rewarding and unlike most other scuba adventures,” writes Terry Steeley, a member of our Your Shot community who dove on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. “I had dived many times at the Taj Mahal cenote, but today was different: Navigating my way through the tunnels to Bill’s Hole provided a real treat. The intimately lit cavern layered against energetically dancing light beams was breathtaking. Indeed, a very special dive.”
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| 2014-12-bald-eagles-birds-talons | | Picture of two bald eagles vying for a spot on the same post, Aleutian Islands, Alaska | | Two bald eagles aim for the same post in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. According to Klaus Nigge, who wrote the January 2015 National Geographic story “First Bird,” the one that lands first in such squabbles usually vacates the perch in order to avoid being raked by the incoming bird’s open talons.
See more photos from the January 2015 feature story “First Bird.”
Hear photographer Klaus Nigge speak about photographing bald eagles on Proof.
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