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JUNE 30, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Plants can be food, art, or playthings for this child.

Lynn Johnson
JUNE 29, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

California black bears regularly raid the Happy Camp city dump for garbage food and are becoming a tourist attraction in California.

Michael Nichols
JUNE 28, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A worker doing his job on a ship before the heavy rains arrive.

Yves Schiepek/National Geographic My Shot
JUNE 27, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Barechested Moken tribesman with honeycomb in a forest, Nyawi Island.

Nicholas Reynard
JUNE 26, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A farmer pulling a wagon heaped with straw in Shandong.

James L. Stanfield
JUNE 25, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A rancher and his snarling dog in Idaho.

Joel Sartore
JUNE 24, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Cemetry in New Orleans, above ground graves.

Tyrone Turner
JUNE 23, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Two young boys cool down in the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok.

Ira Block
JUNE 22, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Colourful houses in the Guanajuato Cityscape.

Raul Touzon
JUNE 21, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

This matriarch was ruling the roost at an elephant sanctuary in Victoria Falls.

Tyler Sharp/National Geographic Your Shot
JUNE 20, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A young boy in a poor rural village looks through a lattice window.

Justin Guariglia
JUNE 19, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Buddhist monks began cutting Ajanta's caves into a curving gorge in the first century BC. The site was abandoned in the fifth century and was not rediscovered until some 1400 years later. This is the 24 foot long reclining Buddha on the left wall of Cave

James P. Blair
JUNE 18, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A crab spider with a ladybug as its prey, Maryland.

George Grall
JUNE 17, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A monk at the Shaolin temple in Henan Province walks with a Burger King bag.

Justin Guariglia
JUNE 16, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Portrait in Afghanistan.

Azad Pirayandeh / National Geographic My Shot
JUNE 15, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Veiled woman.

Sandra Chen Weinstein/National Geographic My Shot
JUNE 14, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Leaving behind the shell of its former self, this cicada's new wings are still rolled up.

Melissa Troutman/National Geographic My Shot
JUNE 13, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Beijing Opera Building.

Sergio Amiti / National Geographic My Shot
JUNE 12, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Two burrowing owls.

Jack Levy / National Geographic My Shot
JUNE 11, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A boy and his pet baboon wander the Suri village of Tulgit.

Randy Olson
JUNE 10, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Sun shining through fog on Mausoleums in Galicia.

Jim Richardson
JUNE 9, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

People swim in the Sevastopol Thermal and Electrical Power Plant, once the main plant of the Crimea.

Ed Kashi
JUNE 8, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A bleak barrio of one room, tin roofed shacks in Tegucigalpa.

David Alan Harvey
JUNE 7, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A spiral staircase in the interior of a Pagoda found at Sun Moon Lake.

Justin Guariglia
JUNE 6, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A Hindu holy man with streaming dreadlocks at prayer in Bodhnath.

Michael Melford
JUNE 5, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Vintage cars parked on a Havana street.

Medford Taylor
JUNE 4, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Men sit on bags of flour at a manufacturing plant in Hunan Province.

Justin Guariglia
JUNE 3, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A grizzly and her twin cubs scavenge through a dumpster.

Joel Sartore
JUNE 2, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

The gilded feet of a colossal standing Buddha at Wat Intrawiharn Temple in Bangkok.

Paul Chesley
JUNE 1, 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Feeding cattle in the snow on the Padlock Ranch in Montana.

William Albert Allard