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Tigers, India
Photograph by Steve Winter, National Geographic
Meet Smasher—the male in the background. That's the name Steve Winter gave this youngster, cooling off in a watering hole in Bandhavgarh National Park, after he slapped the automated camera trap until it stopped clicking. Both tigers are thought to have killed people, and Smasher is now in captivity.
See more pictures from the December 2011 feature story "A Cry for the Tiger."
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Flamingos, Mexico
Photograph by Klaus Nigge, National Geographic
Flamingos, fiercely loyal in wild flocks, move in unison when there is a threat. Here, near Sisal, Mexico, a research plane is passing overhead. Several major breeding groups live in estuaries around the Caribbean and beyond.
See more pictures from the April 2012 feature story "Birds of a Feather."
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Lightning, Iran
Photograph by AmirAli Sharifi, My Shot
After three years I went to visit my family in Iran. We traveled to the city of Mahmood Abad in the north of Iran and had the most amazing time together. One night as I was walking on the shore of the Caspian Sea with my sister, I saw distant lightning. I ran to the hotel, grabbed my camera and tripod, and came back. I took many long exposures, but it was only in the second shot that I captured the biggest, most beautiful, and the last lightning of that night.
(This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
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Gray Wolf, Washington
Photograph by Mukul Soman, Your Shot
A gray wolf rests at Wolf Haven International, a wolf sanctuary in Washington State.
(This photo and caption were submitted to Your Shot.)
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Church of Rodel, Outer Hebrides
Photograph by Jim Richardson, National Geographic
The 15th-century church of Rodel on the Isle of Lewis, built for the warlike chiefs of the MacLeods, towers over the sea lochs of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. Nothing in early modern Britain, from its cities to its remotest corners, was more political than religion. The church in every parish—nearly always the most imposing building—was as much a symbol of worldly control as a shrine to God.
See more pictures from the December 2011 feature story "The Bible of King James."
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River House, Serbia
Photograph by Irene Becker, My Shot
A house in the middle of the Drina River near the town of Bajina Basta, Serbia
(This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
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Squirrel in Snow
Photograph by Ray Yeager, My Shot
Photographed during a snowstorm in New Jersey
(This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
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Submerged Plane, Bahamas
Photograph by Bjorn Moerman, Your Shot
While island hopping around the Bahamas in a Cessna C172 aircraft, I made this aerial of a Curtiss C-46 that ditched on November 15, 1980. It crashed while it was on a drug smuggling mission for the Colombian Medellín drug cartel and lies in shallow water east of the Norman's Cay airport in the Exumas, Bahamas. My preflight Internet research paid off!
(This photo and caption were submitted to Your Shot.)
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Cows, India
Photograph by Mariajoseph Johnbasco, Your Shot
I shot this calf on the road in 2011 on the eve of Diwali at Neyveli, which is my hometown. Due to crackers going off everywhere, the cows couldn’t rest near homes so they sought the middle of the road for rest. The fog, noise, and the backlighting of the streetlight made me take this picture.
(This photo and caption were submitted to Your Shot.)
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Elephants, Serengeti
Photograph by Steve Fujinaka, My Shot
On photo safari in the Serengeti in February 2012, we caught sight of this baby among a herd of grazing elephants. It was cute how the young elephant would walk in and out of its mother's legs as she was walking along.
(This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
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Stargazer, Lake Malawi
Photograph by Chris Cannucciari, My Shot
Lake Malawi, Africa. A stargazer looks into the endless cosmos as waves lap along a beach in Southern Malawi.
(This photo was submitted to Your Shot.)
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Elephants, Uganda
Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic
Elephants have miles of unbroken savanna to roam inside Uganda's Queen Elizabeth Park, where their numbers total 2,500, a dramatic rise after heavy poaching in the 1980s. Outside the preserve villagers kill elephants that trample and eat crops, though attacks have diminished with the digging of trenches to protect fields from wild trespassers.
See more pictures from the November 2011 feature story "Rift in Paradise."
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Street Scene, Ontario
Photograph by Frederic Mercnik, My Shot
I saw this scene through the glass in my car. I noticed that a couple was walking toward the scene. I waited for them to get into the frame and clicked the shutter. Shooting through the glass gives the image a real wet feeling.
(This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)
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Morning Ride, Netherlands
Photograph by Wouter van den Heuvel, Your Shot
A photo shot in the Netherlands, in a small town called Boskoop. September mornings usually look great, because on many mornings beautiful mist appears. The kid on the bike was on his way to school and had no idea what kind of beautiful display of light took place right behind him.
(This photo and caption were submitted to Your Shot.)
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Horses, Mongolian Steppe
Photograph by Mark Leong, National Geographic
An ocean of green, Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country in the world, with just under three million people in a landmass larger than Alaska. Mongolian culture—physical, mobile, self-reliant, and free—developed out here on the steppe. "When people move to Ulaanbaatar, they bring that mentality with them," says Baabar, a well-known publisher and historian.
See more pictures from the October 2011 feature story "The Urban Clan of Genghis Khan."
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Elephant Trio, Namibia
Photograph by Susan McConnell, Your Shot
Two adult elephants and a baby are at a waterhole in Etosha National Park in Namibia. The adults appear to be in heated conversation, but the conflict is resolved quickly and peacefully.
(This photo and caption were submitted to Your Shot.)
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