| 2015-8-tornado-chaser-colorado | | Picture of a tornado touching down in Colorado | | “This was the last picture [from] an incredible day,” writes Your Shot member Cristiano Xavier. “We saw more than 15 tornadoes.” Xavier captured this image in Simla, Colorado, stopping briefly after outrunning the storm.
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| 2015-8-camel-caravan-sunset | | Picture of a camel caravan at sunset | | In the United Arab Emirates, Your Shot member Rogel Tura captured this iconic silhouette while traveling in the desert at sunset. Tura was heading to his camp when he came upon the man and his camels at the top of the dunes.
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| 2015-8-girl-hide-seek | | Picture of a girl playing hide-and-seek | | “Sophia’s favorite game is hide-and-seek,” writes Your Shot member Juan Carlos Osorio, who captured this picture of his daughter in Verona, New Jersey. “It was a very cloudy afternoon, but when the sun came up, I saw my wife’s shadow next to my daughter [as she asked] her to start counting so she could hide. We had a lot of fun.”
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| 2015-8-hands-man-bangladesh | | Picture of the worn hands of an elderly man from Bangladesh | | “Sometimes texture shows ... time,” writes Your Shot member Dolon archi, who captured this shot of an elderly man’s hands in Bangladesh.
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| 2015-7-elephant-herd-kilimanjaro | | Picture of a herd of elephants walking with Mount Kilimanjaro in the background | | In the first morning light, female elephants and their young cross the plains of Kenya’s Amboseli National Park to feed in the marshes, says Your Shot member Daniel Pinheiro. Mount Kilimanjaro and its famed mantle of snow looms behind.
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| 2015-7-man-skiing-austrian-alps | | Picture of a man skiing in the Austrian Alps | | Passionate ski mountaineer and Your Shot member Peter Svoboda loves minimalist compositions in his winter-themed mountain photography. Svoboda saw this scene unfold from about a mile away on the summit of Kreuzkogel in the Austrian Alps. “The angle of [the] slope ... and [the] afternoon sun created rather attractive shapes at first sight,” he writes. “I was waiting on the top of the mountain and took some pictures with the lonely tree. But it was not enough for me.” After he’d photographed a group of skiers who were enjoying the deep powder, this lone figure “was like icing on the cake,” he writes. “The mood was there.”
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| 2015-7-farming-terrace-vietnam | | Picture of rice terraces in Lao Cai Province, Vietnam | | Terraced rice fields are seen from above in Lao Cai Province in northern Vietnam. Rice is one of the country’s key exports.
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| 2015-7-pope-greeting-people | | Picture of Pope Francis greeting people in St. Peter’s Square | | At a general audience in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City, Pope Francis rides in a popemobile without the protection of bulletproof glass. The pontiff wandered freely when he was a cardinal in Buenos Aires but cannot do so in Rome for his own safety.
See more pictures from the August 2015 feature story “Will the Pope Change the Vatican?”
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| 2015-7-man-ocean-phytoplankton | | Picture of a man standing in the ocean with bioluminescent phytoplankton surrounding him | | While walking along the shore of Larak, Iran—an island in the Persian Gulf—Your Shot member Pooyan Shadpoor came across this luminous scene. The “magical lights of [the] plankton ... enchanted me so that I snapped the shot,” he writes.
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| 2015-7-folkloric-festival-peru | | Picture of folk dancers at the Senor de Choquekillca festival in Peru | | Your Shot member Austin Beahm, a Latin American geography lecturer, uses photography to connect students to the beauty of the region he loves. Here, young folk dancers are juxtaposed with older onlookers at the four-day Señor de Choquekillca festival in the Andean town of Ollantaytambo, Peru. “While they are separated by two generations or even more, they still share the cohesive bond of tradition so common to villages in the Andes,” Beahm writes.
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| 2015-7-buddhist-monk-costume | | Picture of a Buddhist monk dressed for the black-hat dance, Bhutan | | A monk pauses for a breath before dancing out into the crowd at the annual Black-Necked Crane Festival in central Bhutan. The festival celebrates “the auspicious migration of the endangered black-necked crane from Tibet to Bhutan in the winter months,” writes Your Shot member Vincent Roazzi, who captured the monk before the traditional black-hat dance at the Gangtey Monastery. “I tried to find a unique perspective on the festival dances by going behind the scenes and venturing inside Gangtey Monastery, where I found monks preparing intricate costumes for masked dances,” he writes.
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| 2015-7-yellowstone-grand-prismatic-aerial | | Picture of Yellowstone’s Grand Prismatic Spring and visitors path from above | | The day Your Shot member Eric Smith first walked the path around Yellowstone National Park’s Grand Prismatic Spring, he made an addition to his bucket list: photographing the spring from the air. “I made that dream a reality as I took off in a helicopter from Bozeman, Montana, and flew to the Midway Geyser Basin [where Grand Prismatic is located] to get the 50-megapixel shots I had always seen in my mind,” he writes. “It was even more spectacular than I could have imagined ... The final composition juxtaposes humanity with one of America's most incredible natural treasures.”
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| 2015-7-man-boat-river-india | | Picture of a man steering a boat on the Ganges, West Bengal, India | | “It was just before the autumn in Bengal, when I was searching for kash flower[s] here and there,” writes Sirsendu Gayen, a member of our Your Shot community. “On receiving positive news from my friend ... I managed to travel by a country boat through the Ganges beside Mayapur in [the] Nadia district of West Bengal. To my utter surprise it was a rainy day. The sky was fully covered with dark cloud[s]. Naturally, I was not at all happy with it. So I thought to capture something different, and ultimately I shot this picture, where I have tried to demonstrate the breaking of [a] scene down into graphic shapes and lines.”
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| 2015-7-crater-lake-oregon | | Picture of a dead tree overlooking Crater Lake with the Milky Way above, Oregon | | Specializing for the past four years in what he calls astrophotographic landscapes, Your Shot member Keith Marsh has captured the Milky Way in locations from Alaska to Cuba. He photographed Oregon’s Crater Lake looking south from the north rim, where the Milky Way is brightest. “I also wanted to have something in the foreground for additional interest and spent several hours during the day searching for just the right spot,” he writes. “As it turned out, this old dead tree is very popular with photographers, and over a period of several hours there were as many as 20 photographers huddled in this same spot.” The lights on the horizon are from Klamath Falls, Oregon, about 60 miles away.
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| 2015-7-women-selling-market-stairs | | Picture of women selling items from steps at a market, Dalat, Vietnam | | In the mountain city of Dalat in southern Vietnam, women work on market steps—adapted to the sloped terrain—after a heavy shower. Your Shot member Quang Tran was walking through the city “observing people do different things to earn [a] living ... and that way I caught this moment in front of an old market.”
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| 2015-7-yaqing-temple-landscape | | Picture of the Yaqing Temple, Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China | | Dwellings housing Tibetan Buddhist nuns flank Yaqing Temple in China’s Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Your Shot member Thierry Bornier traveled here after learning about it from a friend. Relatively undiscovered, the place’s beauty remains untouched by modernism and tourism, he says. He spent four days near the temple to capture this image with a blue sky and big white clouds in order to give the landscape a 3-D quality.
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| 2015-7-men-mirrors-walking-reflection | | Picture of a man carrying mirrors with people reflected in them, Kenya | | Lake Turkana, the world’s largest permanent desert lake, sustains the tribes in Kenya’s remote north—but projects upstream threaten its lifeblood. Here, a man sells mirrors in the Kakuma Refugee Camp. Located a hundred miles from Lake Turkana, the UN camp holds 180,000 refugees who fled conflicts in Sudan, Somalia, and other nations.
See more pictures from the August 2015 feature story “Last Rites for the Jade Sea?”
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| 2015-7-lightning-rainbow-storm | | Picture of lightning and a rainbow during a storm in Iowa | | While trying to provide storm coverage for local affiliates, Iowa storm chaser Paul Brooks followed a cell from Albia to Mount Pleasant at sunset. He captured this scene just east of Mount Pleasant—lightning to the south and a well-defined rainbow to the east—by stacking seven separate shots on top of each other, forming a composite image of the weather events. “Truly a perfect alignment of the elements,” he writes.
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