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January 2012
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31 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Sunlight through a cyprus swamp. Merchants Millpond State Park, North Carolina
Medford Taylor/National Geographic Stock
30 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
A Russian Orthodox priest strikes for democratic change in Sofia.
Thomasz Tomaszewski
29 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
A young Turkish girl looks out of a window in Sogut Golu.
James L. Stanfield
28 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Elderly ladies sitting on a bench looking at a baby in Venice.
Jodi Cobb
27 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Maria Anastasi and her daughters watch Italy play Nigeria in the World Cup soccer match of July 1994. Maria lives in a three-room apartment in a poor Catania neighbourhood, Sicily. This day in 1926 saw the first public demonstration of television.
William Albert Allard
26 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Sunlight falls on a tree root emtwined head of a Buddha statue in Wat Phra Maharthat, Ayuthaya.
Alison Wright
25 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Children walk past Manila's Smoky Mountain on Luzon Island.
Lynn Johnson
24 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
A cemetary on the Pacific coast of Chile's Atacama Desert.
David Evans
23 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
An informal portrait of a Japanese woman in traditional dress.
Karen Kasmauski
22 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Portrait of an Egyptian man holding an umbrella in Deir el Gharbi.
James L. Stanfield
21 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
House windows are latticed to shield the women inside from view in Jidda.
Jodi Cobb
20 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
An ossuary in the cemetery of La Fontanelle, Naples
Tino Soriano
19 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
A silk dyer's wife presents herself in purdah for a portrait in her home, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh State.
Cary Wolinsky
18 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Prayerful woman at Hindu fire-walking ceremony called Teemeethi.
James L. Stanfield
17 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Today is Martin Luther King Day. Here freedom marchers gather at the Lincoln Memorial.
James P. Blair
16 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
African elephant in aggressive defense posture in front of a lion in the grass, Duba Plains, Okavongo Delta.
Beverly Joubert
15 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
A mongolian nomadic woman at her yurt in Erdene Soum.
Alison Wright
14 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Monks in yellow hats blow horns at a fire puja at Nechung Monastery, Dharmsala.
Alison Wright
13 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Geishas napping.
Karen Kasmauski
12 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Near the temples of Vat Phou in the quiet village of Champassac a child pulls algae from the murky waters.
Stanislas Fradelizi/National Geographic My Shot
11 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
A fort encloses a spring now used by women for bathing and laundry on Tarut Island.
Jodi Cobb
10 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
A young monk blows a chewing gum bubble leaning on a Yamaha, Hemis Monastery, Ladakh District.
Alison Wright
9 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
A portrait of a himba elder woman in Hartmann Valley.
Michael Poliza
8 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Portaledges protected by an overhang from falling rock and ice, Great Sail Peak, Baffin Island.
Gordon Wiltsie
7 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Cityscape of high rises and waterways in downtown Dubai.
Mattias Klum
6 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Adult male common kingfisher catching amur bitterling in Labod.
Joe Petersburger
5 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Polar Bear and cub on a flating hunk of ice, Olga Strait, Svalbard.
Ira Meyer
4 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
A member of the salt camel caravan, near Fachi.
James L. Stanfield
3 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
An Egyptian drinks from the River Nile.
Ed Kashi
2 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
Aboriginal teen with a mask of mud, swiming in a billabong, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.
Sam Abell
1 JANUARY 2012Share on Twitter Share on Facebook
On this day in 1856 the first underwater phtoograph was taken. Here Southern Right Whales, underwater off the Auckland islands.
Brian J. Skerry