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January 1, 2012
Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar
Photograph by Juan Jose Acevedo, Your Shot
The light gracefully filters through the complex central vault above the atrium of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.
January 2, 2012
Tuscany, Italy
Photograph by Jure Kravanja, Your Shot
When I was driving last year through Tuscany, Italy, I suddenly saw this beautiful image.
January 3, 2012
Infinity Pool, Singapore
Photograph by Chia Ming Chen
The vertiginous "infinity pool" at the Marina Bay Sands resort offers a sweeping view of Singapore, a country that's achieved success while building up instead of out.
January 4, 2012
Rainbow, Lake Champlain
Photograph by Alan Nyiri, My Shot
This image was made on the afternoon of October 20, 2011, just before sunset, near Lake Champlain in Vermont.
January 5, 2012
Street Scene, Ontario
Photograph by Frederic Mercnik, My Shot
I saw this scene through the glass in my car. I noticed that a couple was walking toward the scene. I waited for them to get into the frame and clicked the shutter. Shooting through the glass gives the image a real wet feeling.
January 6, 2012
Floating Lanterns, Thailand
Photograph by Patrice Carlton, My Shot
I had planned a recent trip to Thailand in November to coincide with the Loy Krathong celebration because I had seen pictures of the floating lanterns being launched into the sky. However, nothing I had seen prepared me for the incredible magic of experiencing thousands of these lanterns floating into the night sky at once while monks chanted at the Lanna Meditation Center in Chiang Mai. It was one of the most amazing experiences I have ever had.
January 7, 2012
Silica Pond, Iceland
Photograph by David Remacle, Your Shot
One of the highlights of the interior of Iceland: a hot-water pond, charged with silica, glowing in the middle of nowhere.
January 8, 2012
Morning Ride, Netherlands
Photograph by Wouter van den Heuvel, Your Shot
A photo shot in the Netherlands, in a small town called Boskoop. September mornings usually look great, because on many mornings beautiful mist appears. The kid on the bike was on his way to school and had no idea what kind of beautiful display of light took place right behind him.
January 9, 2012
Great Wall, China
Photograph by Byron Yu, My Shot
A woman rests on Jiankou Great Wall, a section of the Great Wall of China near Xizhazi Village.
January 10, 2012
Church of Rodel, Outer Hebrides
Photograph by Jim Richardson, National Geographic
The 15th-century church of Rodel on the Isle of Lewis, built for the warlike chiefs of the MacLeods, towers over the sea lochs of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. Nothing in early modern Britain, from its cities to its remotest corners, was more political than religion. The church in every parish—nearly always the most imposing building—was as much a symbol of worldly control as a shrine to God.
January 11, 2012
Submerged Plane, Bahamas
Photograph by Bjorn Moerman, Your Shot
While island hopping around the Bahamas in a Cessna C172 aircraft, I made this aerial of a Curtiss C-46 that ditched on November 15, 1980. It crashed while it was on a drug smuggling mission for the Colombian Medellín drug cartel and lies in shallow water east of the Norman's Cay airport in the Exumas, Bahamas. My preflight Internet research paid off!
January 12, 2012
Westminster Abbey, London
Photograph by Jim Richardson, National Geographic
For a thousand years, music and ceremony have celebrated the Christian Gospel in Westminster Abbey in London. As the place where generations of English kings and queens have been married, crowned, and buried, this great medieval building embodied King James's cherished fusion of glory and regal authority—a visual and aural richness of which the new Bible was to be an integral part.
January 13, 2012
Bandarban, Bangladesh
Photograph by M Yousuf Tushar, My Shot
Golden fields in Bandarban, one of the hill districts in southeastern Bangladesh
January 14, 2012
Rice Terraces, China
Photograph by Byongsun Ahn, Your Shot
A farmer is beginning his day, walking along the rice terraces at dawn.
January 15, 2012
Horses, Iceland
Photograph by Marketa Kalvachova, Your Shot
Icelandic horses are out all year, even through the winter. I captured these in-foal mares in southern Iceland in December 2011.
January 16, 2012
Stargazer, Lake Malawi
Photograph by Chris Cannucciari, My Shot
Lake Malawi, Africa. A stargazer looks into the endless cosmos as waves lap along a beach in Southern Malawi.
January 17, 2012
Iguazu Falls
Photograph by Chris Schmid, Your Shot
Aerial view of Iguazu Falls, Brazil-Argentina border
January 18, 2012
Elephants, Uganda
Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic
Elephants have miles of unbroken savanna to roam inside Uganda's Queen Elizabeth Park, where their numbers total 2,500, a dramatic rise after heavy poaching in the 1980s. Outside the preserve villagers kill elephants that trample and eat crops, though attacks have diminished with the digging of trenches to protect fields from wild trespassers.
January 19, 2012
Riverbank, Belgrade
Photograph by David Konecny, My Shot
Overhead snapshot of the Belgrade riverbank—summer love, I guess!
January 20, 2012
Reindeer, Scandinavia
Photograph by Erika Larsen
On a moonlit night, herders bring the reindeer into temporary tarp-enclosed corrals called gárdi to separate the pregnant females from the rest.
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