Photo of the day

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February 2011
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28 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Feet of a Peruvian mother and child in native clothing in Ollantaytambo, Sacred Valley.
RALPH LEE HOPKINS
27 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
A man cuts the grass at a cemetary in an area known as Cancer Alley in Morrisonville, Louisiana.
Joel Sartore
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A spider wraps a beetle in strands of silk on Caroline Islands.
Tim Laman
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A Dalli's sheep slows a bus down on an Alaskan road.
Michael S. Quinton
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Scenes from the area called Tanah Abang where the homeless built shacks to live in. These were subsequently burned down by the goernment. Not knowing where to go, many have remained in these smoking ruins on Java Island, Djakarta.
Michael Nichols
23 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Three American bighorn sheep make their way across an impossibly steep slope in Badlands National Park, South Dakota.
Stephens Sharnoff
22 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Similarities between animals and humans.
Jen Millard/National Geographic My Shot
21 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Two male Black-chinned Hummingbirds fight over a favourite perch in Poway, California.
Charles Vantassel/National Geographic My Shot
20 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
A Japanese man reenacts the traditional role of a Samurai in Tokyo.
Justin Guariglia
19 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Local people milling on a street outside a dental clinic.
Pete McBridge
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A mother stands by her three-month-old elephant killed by drought as the rest of the herd head for the waters in Etosha National Park.
Des and Jen Bartlett
17 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Hundreds of sheep stall a motorist on a dusty dirt road in Wyoming.
Lowell Georgia
16 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Two Rhinoceros confronting each other are reflected by the water in Malvern, Victoria.
Alex Baird/National Geographic My Shot
15 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
A pink Katydid. Usually grey, this is a 1 in 500 mutation. National Preserve, Beverley Shores, Indiana.
Lisa Presley / National Geographic My Shot
14 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
The word "LOVE" tattoed on a man's back in New York City. Happy Valentine's Day.
Jodi Cobb
13 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
An elephant at the end of its swim across the Chobe River from Namibia to Botswana.
Eric Webber/ National Geographic My Shot
12 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
On this day in 1961 the Soviets won the space race. Here the space shuttle Discovery launches its 33rd mission, Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Mark Thiessen
11 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
The eye of a parrotfish. Red Sea.
David Doubilet
10 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
A night watchman and dog sit on a make-shift bed on a flooded street.
Winfield Parks
9 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Adult snow monkey in thermal springs, Honsu.
Roy Toft
8 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
A Muslim girl in traditional dress blows a bubble with her gum.
Dean Conger
7 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Chimpanzees look on in grief at the burial of one of their own.
Monica Szczupider/National Geographic My Shot
6 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Workers travel the Golden Quarilateral Highway in Palu, Rajasthan.
Ed Kashi
5 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin, raise the American flag on the moon. On this day in 1971 Apollo 14 landed on the moon.
NASA
4 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
The University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy's PS1 observatory, Maui.
Stephen Alvarez
3 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Mirrors catch sunlight at an electric plant in Seville.
Michael Melford
2 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Corralled wild horses at La Rapa das Bestas festival in Vimianzo, Galicia.
Jim Richardson
1 FEBRUARY 2011Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
With a high desert backdrop, a llama sits in the back of a red pickup truck, Atacama Desert.
Joel Sartore