The best photos of the past week (December 24-30) from National Geographic

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

What will please us with the last collection of photos from National Geographic? Of course, we will again talk about distant countries and interesting events, beautiful landscapes and animals, unusual people and colorful types. This is all - National Geographic magazine, and today the best photos for December 24-30 2012.

December 24

An autochromic depiction of quivering foliage in Charleston, South Carolina, by Anthony Stewart. Middleton is considered one of the most picturesque romantic spots in the city of Place, billed as the home of America's oldest gardens. The photo was originally published by National Geographic in August 1940.

December 25

This is how breakfast was prepared by epipage of a barge that had an accident on the Mohawk River in New York state. The river, whose name means "Iroquois", is named after the tribe of the Indians of the Iroquois League - the Mohawks. The Mohawk is not only the main waterway in north-central New York, but also the largest tributary of the Hudson, and this photo hit the pages of National Geographic magazine in July 1947.

December 26

In 1942, a feature on California wildflowers in National Geographic magazine illustrated this remarkable photograph. The girls traveling along the California Valley stopped in the San Joaquin Valley to collect flowering lupines and owl clovers.

December 27th

In the essay about Puerto Rico and the people who live there, there were tons of pictures. But one of the few photos that caused a resonance was this one. A mechanical loader in a reed field collects debris, leaves and branches, and all this against the background of a flame, in which already collected debris is burned to be destroyed.

December 28th

Lake Garda is the pearl of northern Italy, a picturesque place that has been attracting tourists for many decades. The town of Sirmione is located on the lake, where one of the most important attractions is considered to be the Scaliger Castle, built in the 13th century and belonging to the Scaliger dynasty from Verona. The photograph is dated 1968.

December 29th

One of the 1968 National Geographic magazine spreads featured this photograph illustrating the lives of Basque farmers, husband and wife.

December 30th

A Kuwale shepherd, also called the Mukubals in Angola, was filmed at the top of Chela Mount in the pose of a pensive thinker, philosophically looking into the distance. The photo appeared in the magazine in the fall of 1961. Exactly in the year when the armed conflict between Portugal and Angola broke out.