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30 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A lone bull elephant feigns a charge the onlooker at a water hole, creating a big splash. Okavango Delta. Botswana.

Frans Lanting
29 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A chameleon reaching for a snack, Moka. Mauritius.

Ian Nichols
28 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Children swim near the bridge that opened the Virgin Ndoki area to exploitation, Ndoki. Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Michael Nichols
27 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Cheering for a pig race at the Kansas State Fair. USA.

Joel Sartore
26 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

The Expo 1967 Geodesic Dome, now called the Biosphere, in Montreal. Canada.

Stacy Gold
25 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Sisters with rainbow coloured hairstyles and matching glitter in Saint Paul, Minnesota. USA.

Joel Sartore
24 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Iowa fairgoers bite in synchrony at the first-ever Corn Dog Chomp in Des Moines, Iowa. USA.

Joel Sartore
23 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Men sit under a waterfall as part of training to become a Yamabushi, Mt. Haguru, Yamagata Prefecture. Japan.

Michael S. Yaashita
22 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A baby monkey embrassing the carcass of its recently hunted parent. Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Michael Nichols
21 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Mirror arrays concentrate light making electricity in Alburquerque, New Mexico. USA.

Michael Melford
20 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Twighlight view of a 700-foot-long cable bridge, designed by a local priest, that spans the Zambezi River at Chinyingi. The bridge was built in response to a ferry accident in 1971 which drowned five people. Zamibia.

Chris Johns
19 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Bees cluster on two pallets of hives, stacked and strapped for moving by a migratory beekeeper, after the bees pollinated a crop in Maine. USA.

Maria Stenzel
18 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Water Throwing Festival, a purification rite during the Buddhist New Year. Myanmar.

James L. Stanfield
17 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

An elderly ice skater at the Galleria Mall, Dallas, Texas. USA.

David Alan Harvey
16 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

The modern interior addition of the history Reichstag Building, Berlin. Germany.

Scott S. Warren
15 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Men rebuild a house in traditional style using no nails or machines in Dimen, Guizhou Province. People's Republic of China.

Lynn Johnson
14 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

The pigment of a blue button jellyfish blocks ultraviolet rays, Hawaii. USA.

David Liittschwager
13 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Its image mirrored in icy water, a polar bear swims submerged in Lancaster Sound, Northwest Territories. Canada.

Paul Nicklen
12 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Lighning bugs and wild alfalfa blanket the prairie in Strong City, Kansas. USA.

Jim Richardson
11 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

On this day in 2001, a series of attacks were launched against the USA. This image was taken from above the site where the World Trade Centre stood in New York City. USA.

Lynn Johnson
10 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A brown bear fishing for salmon in Kuril Lake of Kamchakta. Russia.

Randy Olson
9 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A boy pours a bucket of water over himself at the edge of a lake in Meiktila. Myanmar.

James L. Stanfield
8 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Women, window, & Wall.

Suraj Dongol/National Geographic My Shot
7 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A woman in a telephone booth made of ice in Fiarbanks Ice Museum, Alaska. USA.

Alison Wright
6 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A girl has her head shaved before entering the local monastery in Began. Myanmar.

Steve Winter
5 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Moviegoers enjoy a flick at an outside movie garden in Broome. Australia.

Randy Olson
4 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

Costumed extras stand in a field of grain while waiting to go on set in Bombay. India.

William Albert Allard
3 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A porcelain crab in sea anemones in the Raja Ampat Islands. Indonesia.

David Doubilet
2 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A kilted man throws a pole at the Glenfinnan Highland Games in Scotland. UK.

Jim Richardson
1 SEPTEMBER 2011 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook

A leopard seal bares teeth in a display of threat to protect her kill in the Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctica.

Paul Nicklen