 - Mexico, Kids Swing, 1997
- 2002-10-01作者：：Sarah Leen 点击：10 评论：0
- "Carefree for the moment, children in Santa Catalina Cuilotepec may have to flee for their lives someday along with tens of thousands of others in a 660-square-mile [1,709-square-kilometer] area. The nearby volcano, stirring after more than half
 - Las Vegas, Nevada, Rodeo Performers, 1999
- 2002-10-02作者：：William Albert Allard 点击：7 评论：0
- Performers get ready for the last show of the rodeo's Super Bowl, the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. The event sells out 17,000 seats for ten straight nights.
—Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Rodeos—Behi
 - India, Napping Child, 1996
- 2002-10-03作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：5 评论：0
- An Indian man relaxes with a cigarette while his child naps against his back.
(Photographed while on assignment for, but not published in, "India: Fifty Years of Independence," May 1997, National Geographic magazine)
 - Gabon, Empty Cook Pot, 2001
- 2002-10-04作者：：Michael K. Nichols 点击：7 评论：0
- "Weeks earlier the 13-man expedition [walking from Congo to Gabon] nearly starved before reaching new supplies, surviving on one-third rations for the cook pot."
—From "End of the Line: Megatransect, Part Three," August 20
 - Kentucky, Shaker Room, 1989
- 2002-10-05作者：：Sam Abell 点击：8 评论：0
- "Shaker rooms reflect Shaker values of symmetry, order, and function. At Pleasant Hill women entered the dining room of the Centre Family dwelling house through the left, men through the right; they sat at separate tables. Pegboards enabled chai
 - Gabon, Swimming Hippo, 2000
- 2002-10-06作者：：Michael K. Nichols 点击：7 评论：0
- "Left undisturbed by humans, hippopotamuses venture into the surf to mate, play, or merely commute from lagoon to savanna, getting a lift from the buoying water rather than toiling on land."
—From "End of the Line: Megatransect
 - Peru, Nevado Ampato Summit, 1995
- 2002-10-07作者：：Stephen Alvarez 点击：8 评论：0
- "Once wide enough for rituals around a ceremonial platform, Ampato's avalanche-narrowed summit now only admits visitors single file. Nevado Hualca Hualca, straight ahead, still receives offerings from villagers who revere the mountains much as t
 - New York, Puppy Bandage, 1998
- 2002-10-08作者：：Erik Freeland 点击：8 评论：0
- "After a car hit Kiwi, doctors pumped fluid into her veins through a tube inserted in her leg. The bandage holds the tube in place. ... Vets at the Animal Medical Center also treat pets with diseases and pets that have fallen out of apartment wi
 - Botswana, Cheetah Mom and Cub, 1998
- 2002-10-09作者：：Chris Johns 点击：4 评论：0
- "For a [female] cheetah the real danger is not losing a kill but losing her cubs. Ninety-five percent of cheetah cubs die before reaching independence. Hyenas kill them out of hunger, lions apparently out of bad habit. ... Female cheetahs deal w
 - New York, Mink Pond Mist, 1997
- 2002-10-10作者：：Sam Abell 点击：8 评论：0
- "With a stroke of his fly line, a fisherman parts the morning mist on Mink Pond, where artist Winslow Homer often fished for trout. His Adirondack excursions produced creelfuls of fish and a hundred watercolors, which testify to Homer's work hab
 - Washington, Autumn Produce, 1991
- 2002-10-11作者：：Sam Abell 点击：7 评论：0
- "An autumn medley of produce ripened under the care of the Israel family, self-described 'flower children' with roots in the 1960s. The Arlington, Washington, spiritual community cultivates an eight-acre [3.2-hectare] organic garden that feeds i
 - Ireland, Irish Polkas, 1994
- 2002-10-12作者：：Sam Abell 点击：8 评论：0
- "Irish polkas and Kerry slides spring from the fiddle of Francis O'Halloran, who draws tourists and locals to Day's pub on Inishbofin. Irish brewers are tapping new markets abroad by franchising the complete Irish pub—lock, stock, and stou
 - U.S. Plains, Tepee Sunset, 1997
- 2002-10-13作者：：Sam Abell 点击：12 评论：0
- "Twilight of a tradition: Sunset lingers on an annual encampment of Blood Indians, relatives of the Blackfeet. While the Lewis and Clark expedition opened the West to white settlement, it spelled the eventual decline of the native cultures as th
 - Fox River, Michigan, Fox River Fall, 1996
- 2002-10-14作者：：Jay Dickman 点击：9 评论：0
- "Fall sets maple and birch aflame along the Fox River's east branch."
—From "Hemingway's Many Hearted Fox River," June 1997, National Geographic magazine
 - Kashmir, India, Srinagar Rice Harvest, 1998
- 2002-10-15作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：8 评论：0
- "Grandfather supervises the October rice harvest, drawing slowly on a water pipe, while a teenager prepares tea for their weary kin near Srinagar. Family farms and orchards support some 80 percent of Kashmir's population."
—From &qu
 - Venezuela, Looming Capybara, 1996
- 2002-10-16作者：：Robert Caputo 点击：8 评论：0
- "Emerging at dusk to hunt, a burrowing owl is no threat to a capybara, the world's largest rodent. Resembling a cross between a guinea pig and a hippopotamus, the web-footed 'water hog' may grow to 140 pounds [64 kilograms] and stand knee-high t
 - Sun Valley, Idaho, Ski Resort, 1993
- 2002-10-17作者：：Joel Sartore 点击：9 评论：0
- "Another bargain from Uncle Sam, cheap user fees help ski resorts profit off federally owned slopes, like those in the Sawtooth National Forest around Sun Valley. Basking in steam-heated pools, few visitors realize they are surrounded by federal
 - Australia, Thorny Devil, 1998
- 2002-10-18作者：：Frans Lanting 点击：9 评论：0
- "With the profile of a dinosaur and the texture of a rose bush, a thorny devil in Alice Springs Desert Park looks like trouble, but this slow-moving, six-inch [15-centimeter] lizard eats only ants. When alarmed, it tucks its head between its leg
 - Congo, Tchimpounga Sanctuary, 1998
- 2002-10-19作者：：Michael K. Nichols 点击：8 评论：0
- "Raining down laughter, orphans take a ride on a vine at Tchimpounga, reassured by nearby humans. Though the gorillas gather most of their own food, [rehabilitator Despina] Chronopoulos says leaving them by themselves in the forest 'would be lik
 - New York, North Woods Club, 1997
- 2002-10-20作者：：Sam Abell 点击：7 评论：0
- "Tim Brune watches sparks fly at the North Woods Club in New York's Adirondack Mountains, where painter Winslow Homer often fished for trout and absorbed landscapes he would re-create in imagination and paint."
—From "Winslow H
 - New York, Catwalk, 1997
- 2002-10-21作者：：Jodi Cobb 点击：6 评论：0
- "To keep an eye on the latest styles, the fashion press convenes in New York City each spring for a week of designer shows. At one, Isabel Toledo presented a white cotton shift ([U.S.] $450) paired with Manolo Blahnik stiletto heels ([U.S.] $850
 - Abu Simbel, Egypt, Ramses II, 1998
- 2002-10-22作者：：Richard T. Nowitz 点击：7 评论：0
- "Four giant statues of Ramses II sit on either side of the entrance to the larger temple at Abu Simbel. Each 65-foot-tall [20-meter-tall] pharaoh weighs almost two and a half million pounds [1.13 million kilograms]—the weight of 170 elepha
 - Salmon, Idaho, Angry Dog, 1992
- 2002-10-23作者：：Joel Sartore 点击：6 评论：0
- "Testy around strangers, Philip Goodell's dog, Nick, expresses, with vigor, the attitude of many in rural Idaho toward outsiders—especially those who tell them how to use the land. Like many in this area of public domain, Goodell runs catt
 - Petra, Jordan, Backcountry Cooking, 1998
- 2002-10-24作者：：Annie Griffiths Belt 点击：8 评论：0
- "Imhiylah al-Bedoul prepares a meal in the Petra backcountry, where her family spends the summer tending goats, using water from a Nabataean cistern. A lifelong resident of Petra, she raised six of her ten children in a cave near the city center
 - Massachusetts, Ringworm Fungus, 1997
- 2002-10-25作者：：Darlyne A. Murawski 点击：7 评论：0
- "Found in keratin-rich soil throughout the world, this fungus [Microsporum gypseum] produces an infection called ringworm on smooth areas of skin and on the scalp."
—From "Body Beasts," December 1998, National Geographic m
 - Montana, National Bison Range, 1997
- 2002-10-26作者：：Sam Abell 点击：8 评论：0
- "On the National Bison Range in central Montana, one of the prairie's few remaining herds grazes on protected grasslands."
—From the National Geographic book Lewis & Clark: Voyage of Discovery, 1998
 - Botswana, Wild Dog Feast, 1997
- 2002-10-27作者：：Chris Johns 点击：5 评论：0
- "Back from a kill, Bell, the breeding female of her pack, is greeted by 11 pups, anxious to nurse and beg a meal of regurgitated meat. African wild dogs dote on their young; this eight-week-old brood was left in the care of a pack baby-sitter&md
 - Vatican City, Tapestry Restoration, 1985
- 2002-10-28作者：：James L. Stanfield 点击：8 评论：0
- "Drawing on a stock of more than 6,000 colors of thread, a nun repairs a tapestry designed by Raphael, in which Peter receives the keys to the church from Christ."
—From "Vatican City," December 1985, National Geographic m
 - Montana, Rocky Mountain Front, 1997
- 2002-10-29作者：：Sam Abell 点击：9 评论：0
- "Lightning stabs at the Rocky Mountain Front, a formidable wall marking the edge of the broad Montana prairie. Now, as in Lewis and Clark's day, such electrical storms can create spectacles of uncanny beauty—as well as set forests and prai
 - India, Astrologer, 1996
- 2002-10-30作者：：Steve McCurry 点击：7 评论：0
- At dusk, an astrologer sits outside his shop talking with a customer.
(Photographed while on assignment for, but not published in, "India: Fifty Years of Independence," May 1997, National Geographic magazine)
 - Blackpool, England, Halloween Highway, 1998
- 2002-10-31作者：：Tomasz Tomaszewski 点击：8 评论：0
- A busy Blackpool street is decorated with witches, skeletons, and jack-o-lanterns for an upcoming Halloween celebration.
(Photographed while on assignment for, but not published in, "A Jolly Good Time in Blackpool, England," January 1998,
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