Here’re the best 20 photos from the National Geographic. The photos from this gallery are from all the categories which includes animals, forests, landscapes, places, birds, people and etc. To have a closer look at the larger image click on it. All the images have the description and the names with the links to the sources. Enjoy this breathtaking photo gallery. Don’t forget to check all the pages (and not only this main page, 1st of 5th) of the article. [via NationalGeographic]

A picture taken with my trusty (and heavy) Pentax 6x7 at 10:30 in the evening on the longest day of the year. NOT Photoshopped!. This photo and caption were submitted to the 2009 Traveler World in Focus Photo Contest. Photograph by David Crowe.

Orissa, India. Behind a ramshackle cluster of market stalls an impromptu Demsa dance was in full swing. The women danced in semicircles while the men played musical instruments. Suddenly, the crowd stopped clapping. A young man, his face painted a vivid blue, stood in the middle of the circle. He vanished into the multitude, only to reappear like a deity on the shoulders of two men. The dancing started again with the banging of drums as he was spun in a circle to the delight of the crowd. Photograph by Kieron Nelson.








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