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Video: The best photos of the past week (May 09-15) from National Geographic
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
As usual at this time, we present you with a selection of the best photos from National Geographic, introducing those corners of the earth where not everyone is destined to visit. So, what have professional photographers prepared for us from May 9 to 15?
May 09
Half Dome Mountain, a domed rise in Yosemite National Park in the United States, is a place of pilgrimage for many climbers and extreme sports enthusiasts such as fixed-point parachuting, base-jumping. This entertainment is considered illegal, but extreme people say that it is much more fun, and much easier to go down from the top of the mountain by parachute than to make a tedious descent down the slope on foot.
May 10
Gambling in the fountains on a hot sunny day is a favorite pastime of children from all over the world. So, this photo was taken in the evening in one of the squares of Tel Aviv, when Israeli children started one of their favorite games in the city fountain.
May 11
The Sheikh Zayed Mosque is the largest mosque in the United Arab Emirates and the sixth largest mosque in the world. The mosque is located in Abu Dhabi, and it resembles a truly royal palace, huge, luxurious, majestic.
12 May
A troupe of traveling opera singers from China came to the city. They created a temporary theater under a canopy of bamboo sticks. Under the stage they have a dressing room, a dressing room, and a bedroom. In such conditions, to live and work - you need to love art with all your heart and do your best to popularize it in a world where traditional entertainment would be lost due to television and the Internet.
may 13
Probably one of the most beautiful photographs of intersections that can be seen in any metropolis of a modern state. This rainbow of car headlights could be seen (through the camera lens) on a busy Friday in downtown Seoul.
May 14
Tenjin Matsuri is a holiday traditionally held in Osaka, in the Temmangu temples, and is dedicated to Sugawara Michizane, an outstanding statesman, scientist and poet of Japan. The photo shows a bright multicolored bustle that usually accompanies this day.
May 15
A beautiful sunset over Mount Rocciamelone, and a large conical shadow falling over the neighboring mountain peaks of Mount Rocciamelone, Italy.
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