Right from the heart of the gallery of National Geographic Magazine, here is the list of 51 best photographic moments curated from selected from 91 photographers, 107 stories, & 2,290,225 photographs. (OMG) !!
1. Kirill Vselensky perches on a cornice in Moscow as Dima Balashov gets the shot. | PHOTOGRAPH BY GERD LUDWIG
2. As an evening storm lights up the sky near Wood River, Nebraska, about 413,000 sand-hill cranes arrive to roost in the shallows of the Platte River. |PHOTOGRAPH BY RANDY OLSON
3. A diver keeps a close watch on a tiger shark in the Bahamas. | PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN SKERRY
4. Ye Ye, a 16-year-old giant panda, lounges in a wild enclosure at a conservation center in China’s Wolong Nature Reserve. | PHOTOGRAPH BY AMI VITALE
5. Eye-care workers use test-lens frames to conduct eye exams in India’s Sundarbans region. | PHOTOGRAPH BY BRENT STIRTON
6. A Bornean Orangutan climbs 100 feet into the canopy. | PHOTOGRAPH BY TIM LAMAN
7. A pet saddleback tamarind hangs on to Yoina Mameria Nontsotega as the Matsigenka girl takes a dip in the Yomibato River, deep inside Peru’s Manú National Park. | PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLIE HAMILTON JAMES
8. A refugee family lives amid the rubble in Ramadi, an Iraqi city levelled by ISIS’s destruction and bloodshed. | PHOTOGRAPH BY MOISES SAMAN
9. The Grizzly Bear in Grand Teton National Park, fends off ravens from a bison carcass. | PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLIE HAMILTON JAMES
10. Twilight bathes the sanctuary of Athena Pronaia at Delphi. | PHOTOGRAPH BY VINCENT J. MUSI
11. A baby African white-bellied tree pangolin hitches a ride on its mother at Pangolin Conservation | PHOTOGRAPH BY JOEL SARTORE
12. In Flint, Michigan, siblings Julie, Antonio, and India Abram collect their daily allowance of bottled water | PHOTOGRAPH BY WAYNE LAWRENCE
13. Tortoises jockey for shelter from the sun | PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS PESCHAK
14. A harvested bull elk and its prized antlers are transported | PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID GUTTENFELDER
15. Igor Voronkin surfaces at the Barentsburg coal mine on Spitsbergen | PHOTOGRAPH BY EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA
16. The Grand Canyon | PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL NICHOLS
17. Russia’s Bovanenkovo natural gas field | PHOTOGRAPH BY EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA
18. An American crocodile rises from a bed of turtle grass | PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID DOUBILET AND JENNIFER HAYES
19. Taipei | PHOTOGRAPH BY DINA LITOVSKY
20. The carcass of a bison being feasted upon by the wolf and her two-year-old offspring | PHOTOGRAPH BY RONAN DONOVAN
21. Becky Weed and her husband, David Tyler, raise sheep near Yellowstone National Park | PHOTOGRAPH BY ERIKA LARSEN
22. The colors of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone come from the microbes | PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL NICHOLS
23. Steven Donovan, flipping into a pool | PHOTOGRAPH BY COREY ARNOLD
24. Kirk Odom was convicted of rape after an expert testified that a hair on the victim’s nightgown matched his. He spent years in prison before DNA tests proved his innocence | PHOTOGRAPH BY MAX AGUILERA-HELLWEG
25. Bear Jam caused by a mother Grizzly and her cubs | PHOTOGRAPH BY AARON HUEY
26. Virunga Park rangers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo | PHOTOGRAPH BY BRENT STIRTON
27. Poachers killed this black rhinoceros for its horn with high-caliber bullets in South Africa’s Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park | PHOTOGRAPH BY BRENT STIRTON
28. To track changes in sea ice, the Norwegian research vessel Lance drifted along with it for five months in 2015, on a rare voyage from Arctic winter into spring. | PHOTOGRAPH BY NICK COBBING
29. On a mountainside in Yosemite National Park, photographer Stephen Wilkes took 1,036 images over 26 hours to create this day-to-night composite. | PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHEN WILKES
30. A worker uses a mallet to dislodge frozen tuna aboard a Chinese cargo vessel docked at the city of General Santos, in the Philippines. | PHOTOGRAPH BY ADAM DEAN
31. Rüppell’s vulture’s beak- Blood Dripping | PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLIE HAMILTON JAMES
32. Space engineer Pablo de León tests a prototype space suit at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center | PHOTOGRAPH BY PHILLIP TOLEDANO
33. Villagers in Bagaran, Armenia | PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN STANMEYER
34. Nervous System of common Octopus | PHOTOGRAPHED BY DAVID LIITTSCHWAGER AT FLORIDA KEYS MARINE LIFE
35. an American cruise ship sailed into Havana Bay | PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID GUTTENFELDER
36. Silversides swirl through mangroves in the coral reefs off Cuba | PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID DOUBILET AND JENNIFER HAYES
37. Rhinos on a South African ranch have recently had their horns trimmed | PHOTOGRAPH BY BRENT STIRTON
38. Gerd Gamanab, 67 has his corneas destroyed by sun and dust | PHOTOGRAPH BY BRENT STIRTON
39. First migration to Yellow Stone | PHOTOGRAPH BY JOE RIIS
40. Salesman Sungvin Hong rests after a hike in Bukhansan National Park | PHOTOGRAPH BY LUCAS FOGLIA
41. With no beach, meadows become beaches in Summer | PHOTOGRAPH BY SIMON ROBERTS
42. Aboriginal people from Peru’s Manú Forest | PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLIE HAMILTON JAMES
43. 3 Kurdish women are photographed with their faces hidden. Two of the women say they were forced to marry ISIS fighters before escaping to a refugee camp | PHOTOGRAPH BY YURI KOZYREV
44. A ranger tries to track the poachers who killed this elephant and cut off part of its head to get away quickly with its ivory tusks | PHOTOGRAPH BY BRENT STIRTON
45. A panda keeper in China uses a stuffed leopard to train young pandas to fear their biggest wild foe | PHOTOGRAPH BY AMI VITALE
46. Leo Teton stands next to a pole ornamented with bison skulls | PHOTOGRAPH BY ERIKA LARSEN
47. Kids swim in a river where a bridge collapsed in Port Salut, Haiti | PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW MCCONNELL
48. Isra Ali Saalad moved from Somalia to Sweden with her mother and two siblings. “The reason we came to this country is because it is safe,” says her sister, Samsam | PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBIN HAMMOND
49. A young Rüppell’s vulture eats a piece of zebra | PHOTOGRAPH BY CHARLIE HAMILTON JAMES
50. Lounging in inches of warm water, black-tip reef sharks wait for the tide to refill the lagoon at Seychelles’ Aldabra Atoll. | PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS P. PESCHAK
51. A child draws a heart in the desert sand that came along for the ride in the train journey | PHOTOGRAPH BY MATTHIEU PALEY
Source: National Geographic
By: Archa Dave
