Like drifting clouds, hilltops mirrored in a mirage appear to float behind a Land Rover. The illusion is created by heat waves shimmering in the 120-degree (49-degree-Celsius) temperatures of the Dasht-i-Margo—Afghanistan's so-called "Desert of Death."
(Photo shot on assignment for "Afghanistan—Crossroad of Conquerors," September 1968, National Geographic magazine)
09年1月22
Downtown Suva, Viti Levu Island, Republic of Fiji
The largest city between Honolulu and Auckland, Suva—the capital of the Republic of Fiji—dazzles with cosmopolitan offices, shops, and entertainment. With 180,000 residents in its metropolitan area, the city wraps around a superb deepwater harbor on the island of Viti Levu. By sea and air, Fiji serves as a hub linking Pacific nations.
(Photo shot on assignment for "Two Worlds of Fiji,” October 1995, National Geographic magazine)
09年1月23
Cliff Divers, Mazatlan, Mexico
A daring diver times his plunge with an incoming wave as he plummets from a cliff in Mazatlan, Mexico. When the surf surges in, 12 feet (3.7 meters) of water lies below; outgoing seas leave half that depth.
(Photo shot on assignment for "South to Mexico City," August 1968, National Geographic magazine)
09年1月24
Panda Yawning, Kunming, China
A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) yawns in its enclosure at the Yuantong Zoo in Kunming, China. Wild pandas live only in remote, mountainous regions in central China. These high forests of bamboo (their primary food) are cool and wet—just as pandas like it.
(Photo shot on assignment for the National Geographic book Journey into China, 1982)
09年1月25
Diver in Coral Garden, Dominica Island, Caribbean Sea
Off Scotts Head, Dominica Island, a sunken garden of sponges and coral rewards a visitor, part of a growing stream of divers discovering Dominica’s marine life. With one of the most vibrant underwater ecosystems in the Caribbean, Dominica offers scuba divers aquarium-clear water with visibility that can reach 100 feet (30 meters).
(Photo shot on assignment for "Dominica,” June 1990, National Geographic magazine)
09年1月26
Northern Lights, Trapper Creek, Alaska
Spectacular sky shows brighten the long winter nights for Alaska's year-round residents. This display of northern lights sets the horizon aglow at Trapper Creek. Stars of the Big Dipper, upper left, wheeling through the December sky, show as streaks in this ten-minute exposure. Residents of the region witness dozens of auroras yearly; those in the Point Barrow area farther north see as many as a hundred.
(Photo shot on assignment for "Nomad in Alaska's Outback," April 1969, National Geographic magazine)
09年1月27
Petrohué Falls, Chile
The gentle falls of the Petrohué River frame the graceful slopes of Osorno Volcano, part of the Andes Mountain. The scene is but one memorable view within Chile's Vicente Perez Rosales National Park.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Chile, Republic on a Shoestring," October 1973, National Geographic magazine)
09年1月28
Velvet Worms, Hamburg, Germany
These intertwined velvet worms, or onychophorans, are living fossils, holdovers of the Cambrian explosion of life-forms that occurred about 530 million years ago. Velvet worms became land dwellers some 250 million years ago but survive today only in dark, moist habitats such as the leaf litter in Costa Rican forests. These worms were photographed at the University of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany.
(Photo shot on assignment for "Explosion of Life: The Cambrian Period,” October 1993, National Geographic magazine)
09年1月29
Pool in Marble Canyon, Arizona
Beyond the roar of the Colorado River, a pool of silence. Discovering this hushed limestone sanctuary at Shinumo Wash in Arizona's Marble Canyon, members of a National Geographic expedition christened it Silver Grotto.
(Photo shot on assignment for "Retracing John Wesley Powell's Historic Voyage Down the Grand Canyon," May 1969, National Geographic magazine)
09年1月30
Alligator Adjusting Its Eggs, Everglades, Florida
Despite 70-odd teeth and a notoriously nasty bite, a female alligator in Florida’s Everglades National Park demonstrates a delicate touch when the time comes for her eggs to hatch. Gently grasping an egg in her mouth, she rolls it on her tongue, feeling for signs of life. If she senses something stirring, she cracks the egg open, then tilts her head forward to let the baby emerge.
(Photo shot on assignment for "Everglades: Dying for Help,” April 1994, National Geographic magazine)
09年1月31
View Atop City Hall, Dresden, Germany
Statues look down on the rebuilt inner city of Dresden from atop City Hall. The medieval city lost tens of thousands of citizens and nearly every building to heavy Anglo-American bombing near the end of World War II. The restored Church of the Cross stands at left of center.
(Photo shot on assignment for "East Germany—The Struggle to Succeed," September 1974, National Geographic magazine)
哈哈哈哈 O(∩_∩)O哈哈~ 好久不来了，不小心看了一眼自己主页，发现自动关联了自己以往发过的帖，点进这个看了一眼，笑个半死。。。敢情我当初还发过这么搞笑的东西啊，我自己完全不记得了 
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发表于 2009-4-7 09:48:57
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60年代拍的？！今天还好，比较快 
发表于 2009-4-8 01:56:00
