اجمل اللقطات التراثية والحديثة لمصورين مبدعين

Women, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan

Photograph by Lynsey Addario – two women on the side of the mountain, in burkas and without a man.

Chikuminuk Lake, Alaska

Photograph by Michael Melford – Chikuminuk Lake reflects the raw wilderness of 1.6-million-acre Wood-Tikchik State Park. One of the largest state parks in the U.S

Street Scene, Kolkata

Photograph by Randy Olson – Its steaming streets crammed with vendors, pedestrians, and iconic Ambassador taxis, Kolkata throbs with some 16 million people—and more pour in every day from small towns.

Diprotodon Tracks, Australia

Photograph by Amy Toensing – On a drying lake bed in Victoria, a farmer in 2007 alerted scientists to a major find: well-preserved tracks of a Diprotodon.

Spadefish, Bonin Islands

Photograph by Brian Skerry – Hunting for morsels of plankton, a school of spadefish hovers near the surface off Japan’s subtropical Bonin Islands.

Hang En Cave, Vietnam

Photograph by Carsten Peter – Going underground, expedition members enter Hang En, a cave tunneled out by the Rao Thuong River.

Whooper Swans, Hokkaido

Bristol Bay, Alaska

Photograph by Michael Melford – “We love our fish!” says Ina Bouker, a Yupik native and teacher from Dillingham who opposes the mine.

Kung Fu Students, China

Photograph by Fritz Hoffmann – Boys at the Tagou school limber up before practicing a kung fu form called Chang Hu Xin Yi Men.

Sunken Ship, Key Largo

Photograph by David Doubilet – Upholstered with luminous sponges and corals, the bridge of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Duane attracts schools of smallmouth grunts—and divers.

Dinka Cattle Camp, Sudan

Photograph by George Steinmetz – The connection between a Dinka man and his cow is profound; it is part of his personal identity.

Pagoda Forest, China

Photograph by Fritz Hoffmann – “Gained merit in battle” reads the epitaph of two of the 231 eminent Shaolin monks honored with shrines in the Pagoda Forest.

Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska

Photograph by Michael Melford – In the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes a stream carves a canyon through rock formed during the 1912 eruption of nearby Novarupta Volcano.

Flower Garden Banks, Gulf of Mexico

Photograph by David Doubilet – In the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico, steel pillars supporting a gas platform make a vertical reef encrusted with tube sponges.

Herder, Israel

Photograph by Greg Girard – A herder serenades his goats near Jerusalem, a few miles from where David tended his herds.

Vietnamese Potbellied Pig, Minnesota

Photograph by Vincent J. Musi

Catacombs, Paris

Photograph by Stephen Alvarez – In a sandy chamber known as the “beach,” a wave rolls across a wall painted (and repainted) by cataphiles in the style of Japanese printmaker Hokusai.

Kogershin Village, Kazakhstan

Photograph by Vincent J. Musi – A woman milks a mare in the village of Kogershin in southern Kazakhstan.

Nyiragongo Volcano, Congo

Photograph by Carsten Peter – An expedition member walks on the cooled lava floor, turned red by the reflected glow of a lake, of a caldera in Nyiragongo volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

High Line, New York City

Photograph by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel – An abandoned rail line has become an elevated park known as the High Line.

Sweat Bee, Arizona

Photograph by Mark W. Moffett – With a vigorous quiver, an Arizona sweat bee “buzz pollinates” a deadly nightshade flower. Its vibrating body shakes free the golden dust that will feed the larvae back in the nest.

Sheep and Goats, Timbuktu

Photograph by Brent Stirton – After a day of grazing in the surrounding desert, a herd of sheep and goats follow their owner to his home on the edge of Timbuktu.