 - Loyalton, California, Classic Aircraft Pilot, 1997
- 2002-04-01作者：：Karen Kasmauski 点击：5 评论：0
- "Classic aircraft pilot Hal Wright, age 93, delivers copies of his newspaper, Sierra Booster, to rural subscribers around Loyalton, California. Reporter, writer, editor, and ad salesman, Wright is lively proof that birthdays are no reliable meas
 - Canada, Royal 22nd Regiment, 1996
- 2002-04-02作者：：Maggie Steber 点击：5 评论：0
- "A relic of British pomp and pageantry, the marching band of the Royal 22nd Regiment performs during a flag-lowering at the Citadel in Quebec City, with the Château Frontenac Hotel as a backdrop. Founded in 1914 by French Canadians, the Ro
 - Victoria Falls, Africa, Victoria Falls Moonglow, 1997
- 2002-04-03作者：：Chris Johns 点击：7 评论：0
- "Built of moonglow and water spray, a bridge of colored light arches over the chasm at Victoria Falls. Besides moonbows, special effects at the falls include a roar so loud it once broke windows six miles [nine kilometers] away and a spray so th
 - Antlered Fly Fight, 1996
- 2002-04-04作者：：Mark W. Moffett 点击：9 评论：0
- "These are New Guinea's half-inch-long [1.3 centimeter long] antlered flies—harmless relatives of the Mediterranean fruit fly and other fruit pests. Astonishing in their similarities to their counterparts, male antlered flies fight over br
 - California, Fish Among Giant Kelp, 1996
- 2002-04-05作者：：David Doubilet 点击：7 评论：0
- "A towering grove of giant kelp harbors grazing señorita wrasses and orange garibaldi—a protected subtropical fish that rarely ranges farther north than the Channel Islands. Giant kelp is the Jack's beanstalk of algae, capable of gr
 - Chavuma, Zambia, Piggy Back Ride, 1997
- 2002-04-06作者：：Chris Johns 点击：6 评论：0
- "Movable feast: A teenager hustles a live pig home from the market in Chavuma, Zambia. The bike and the cargo signal that he comes from a relatively prosperous household. When he marries, his family must part with cows and cash for a bride."
 - Kashmir, India, Comfort, 1999
- 2002-04-07作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：9 评论：0
- "A mother comforts her child in what was once their home. India and Pakistan deny targeting civilians, but shell-struck towns litter the border."
—From "Kashmir: Trapped in Conflict," September 1999, National Geographic ma
 - India, Charger Leap, 1997
- 2002-04-08作者：：Michael K. Nichols 点击：7 评论：0
- "An in-your-face male, Charger triggered this remote-camera power portrait through a wide-angle lens only three feet [0.9 meters] away. He earned his name for his unbridled aggression, charging other male tigers as well as vehicles—includi
 - Laguna Hills, California, Water Ballerinas, 1997
- 2002-04-09作者：：Karen Kasmauski 点击：5 评论：0
- "Submerged ballerinas rehearse for their annual show at Leisure World in Laguna Hills, California. Activities like line dancing, lawn bowling, and computer classes make retirement communities increasingly popular among people with decades of fre
 - Uzbekistan, Oygaing River Rafting, 1996
- 2002-04-10作者：：Dugald Bremner 点击：8 评论：0
- "Challenging the chaos of white water, Andrei Ivanov steers a craft called a bublik—Russian for bagel—down Uzbekistan's Oygaing River. In a week-long, teeth-gritting adventure, a six-man Siberian team took on rapids in Central Asia w
 - Canada, War of Words, 1996
- 2002-04-11作者：：Maggie Steber 点击：4 评论：0
- "A war of words erupted on the walls and airwaves of Montreal before the last referendum, but there was a remarkable lack of violence. To win the next vote—expected within two years—separatists will have to gain the trust of the city
 - Africa, Hippo Hitchhiker, 1997
- 2002-04-12作者：：Chris Johns 点击：7 评论：0
- "All ears and eyes, a Zambezi River hippo ignores a hitchhiker. The long-toed bird—a jacana, or lily trotter—can walk atop floating plants, as the half-hidden jacana next to the hippo is doing."
—From "GeoGuide: Dow
 - Vatican City, Easter Services, 1985
- 2002-04-13作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：6 评论：0
- "Statues of saints overlook St. Peter's Square, filled with Easter Sunday worshipers. [Pope] John Paul II stands on the basilica's loggia in the far distance."
—From the National Geographic book Inside the Vatican, 1991
 - Siberia, Russia, Wilderness Rafting, 1996
- 2002-04-14作者：：Dugald Bremner 点击：9 评论：0
- "Once launched, the bublik [an inflatable raft named after the Russian word for bagel] glides easily over boulders. 'It's like an army tank for water,' says interpreter George Aukon. 'It goes everywhere.'"
—From "Wilderness Raft
 - Jodhpur, India, Dinner Time, 1996
- 2002-04-15作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：6 评论：0
- "Memories of maharajas past loom large in Jodhpur, where, on its outskirts, green chilies spice dinner."
—From "India: Fifty Years of Independence," May 1997, National Geographic magazine.
 - Sydney, Australia, Australian Flag, 1996
- 2002-04-16作者：：Medford Taylor 点击：4 评论：0
- Author Roff Martin Smith:
"Why leave the life I knew in Sydney for 10,000 miles [16,093 kilometers] of unknowns? I was hungry for a change—which is what drove me to Australia in the first place. When I was 22 and working in Wyoming, I dr
 - London, Chelsea Physic Garden, 1980
- 2002-04-17作者：：Sam Abell 点击：9 评论：0
- "Ever since [childhood] I've sought out the edges and outbuildings of gardens and gone into every greenhouse I could. Even empty ones are interesting. The reason is the soft, wrapping light and the way glass houses, by half separation from the w
 - Colorado, Columbine Honor, 2001
- 2002-04-18作者：：Sisse Brimberg 点击：5 评论：0
- "Symbols of life, flowers comfort the living and honor the dead one year after the shooting tragedy at Columbine High School in Colorado."
—From "Flower Trade," April 2001, National Geographic magazine
 - Walnut, California, Pole Vault, 1997
- 2002-04-19作者：：Karen Kasmauski 点击：4 评论：0
- "Defying his 85 years as well as gravity, Carol Johnston practices pole vaulting in Walnut, California. Still competitive, he holds the world record—7'6" [2.3 meters]—for his age. He and 34 million others over 65 in the United S
 - India, Bandhavgarh Den, 1996
- 2002-04-20作者：：Michael K. Nichols 点击：6 评论：0
- "Resting after a night of hunting, a tigress called Sita remains a sentinel, ready to leap at the throat of any creature that dares approach the den where her cubs lie hidden in India's Bandhavgarh National Park. Alarming drops in world tiger po
 - Jodhpur, India, Grand Orders, 1997
- 2002-04-21作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：6 评论：0
- "Memories of maharajas past loom large in Jodhpur, where, on its outskirts .... a grandson gets orders to fetch water."
—From "India: Fifty Years of Independence," May 1997, National Geographic magazine
 - Australia, Clarence River Fog, 1996
- 2002-04-22作者：：Medford Taylor 点击：9 评论：0
- Author Roff Martin Smith:
"Near Grafton, morning fog rises from the Clarence River, a 250-mile [402-kilometer] stream that I crossed on the way to Brisbane. It's a painful reminder of the mental fog I was in the first week out, worrying about
 - Alaska, Ice Climbers, 1993
- 2002-04-23作者：：George F. Mobley 点击：7 评论：0
- Climbers scale a 50-foot [15-meter] ice wall on Root Glacier.
(Photograph taken for, but not published in, "Wrangell-St. Elias National Park: Alaska's Sky-High Wilderness," May 1994, National Geographic magazine)
 - Washington, Olympic Peninsula Cabbage, 1984
- 2002-04-24作者：：Sam Abell 点击：9 评论：0
- "In the teeming sea-level cloud forest of the North Pacific coast every niche seems to support life [including this skunk cabbage]. The steady temperate rain creates almost perfect conditions for growth."
—From the National Geograph
 - Abu Simbel, Egypt, Osiris, 1998
- 2002-04-25作者：：Richard T. Nowitz 点击：10 评论：0
- "Inside Abu Simbel, 30-foot-tall [9-meter-tall] statues of the pharaoh make two visitors look tiny. The statues here portray Ramses II as Osiris, god of the afterlife, who helped the dead live for eternity."
—From "Towering Tre
 - Georgia, Okefenokee Water Garden, 1998
- 2002-04-26作者：：Sam Abell 点击：10 评论：0
- "If a garden is supposed to remove us from ordinary existence, then the wilderness of the Okefenokee Swamp, in Georgia and Florida, accomplishes this separation more surely than any garden I have ever entered.
"Canoeing across the Okefeno
 - Amritsar, India, Golden Temple, 1996
- 2002-04-27作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：7 评论：0
- "The Golden Temple in Amritsar serves as the spiritual center for the world's 20 million Sikhs. 'From Hindus and Muslims have I broken free,' said Arjan Dev Ji, the fifth Sikh guru, in the 1590s. The faith holds all people equal in the eyes of G
 - Lahore, Pakistan, Ramadan at Badshahi Mosque, 1997
- 2002-04-28作者：：Ed Kashi 点击：7 评论：0
- "Bound by common belief, Muslims celebrate the end of Ramadan at Lahore's Badshahi Mosque. Born when Britain partitioned India in 1947, Pakistan gave Muslims a homeland and haven apart from Hindus. 'We are different beings,' said Mohammed Ali Ji
 - Ohio, Geauga County Race, 1997
- 2002-04-29作者：：Randy Olson 点击：6 评论：0
- "Accustomed to the pace of horse-drawn buggies and plows, Ohio Amish women watch a professional harness racer blur past on the Geauga County fairgrounds' half-mile [0.8-kilometer] track. Later they'll cheer as their men take up reins for a high-
 - Kyrgyzstan, Tian Shan Range, 1996
- 2002-04-30作者：：Dugald Bremner 点击：12 评论：0
- "Late autumn snow softens granite pinnacles of the Tian Shan Range, rising above the Oygaing River to 14,700 feet [4,481 meters]. With many rapids rated Class VI in the Russian system, the Oygaing is runnable only by the most skilled rafters. Fl
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