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30 JUNE 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

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

Lynn Johnson
29 JUNE 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
28 JUNE 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
27 JUNE 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

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

Nicholas Reynard
26 JUNE 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A farmer pulling a wagon heaped with straw in Shandong.

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

A rancher and his snarling dog in Idaho.

Joel Sartore
24 JUNE 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Cemetry in New Orleans, above ground graves.

Tyrone Turner
23 JUNE 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

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

Ira Block
22 JUNE 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Colourful houses in the Guanajuato Cityscape.

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

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

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

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

George Grall
17 JUNE 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

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

Justin Guariglia
16 JUNE 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Portrait in Afghanistan.

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

Veiled woman.

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

Beijing Opera Building.

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

Two burrowing owls.

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

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

Randy Olson
10 JUNE 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Sun shining through fog on Mausoleums in Galicia.

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

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

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

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

Justin Guariglia
6 JUNE 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

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

Michael Melford
5 JUNE 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Vintage cars parked on a Havana street.

Medford Taylor
4 JUNE 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

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

Justin Guariglia
3 JUNE 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A grizzly and her twin cubs scavenge through a dumpster.

Joel Sartore
2 JUNE 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

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

Paul Chesley
1 JUNE 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

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

William Albert Allard