The best photos of the past week (06-12 August) from National Geographic

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

Amazing shots taken in picturesque places in the most remote corners of our planet invariably delight the eye and excite the imagination. Traditional selection of the best photos from National Geographic for August 06-12, as always, tells that there are an incredible number of truly magical places in the world where you want to visit at least once in your life. And a lot of interesting things that many of us have never seen.

06 august

An inspiring and mesmerizing sight is the dancing of fireflies in the dark August sky. The magic that nature arranges for us. Many Japanese, watching the lights of fireflies, believe that it is the souls of the departed who communicate with each other, looking after those who remain on earth.

07 august

Childhood is a fertile time, an endless source of happiness, an energy generator, a fountain of emotions and a volcano of impressions. The children in the picture are siblings who are carefree, like all boys of their age, tireless and energetic. And it seems as if they are feeding the earth with their energy, so that everything around them blooms, smells, greens - lives.

08 august

The Canadian crane, which the author of the photo "caught on the fly" at Wildwing Lake, in Brighton, Michigan, is the most abundant species of crane. They can be found in sedge meadows, in swampy valleys of rivers and lakes, on agricultural land. The plumage of these birds has various shades of gray, but in many areas in spring and summer, cranes deliberately cover their bodies with pieces of silt rich in iron oxides, which causes the plumage to acquire a red color. But in places where there is no such silt, birds flaunt their original color all year round.

09 august

One of the most famous paintings by Claude Monet - "Water Lilies", is called a painting in the history of fire. After the landscape was completed, a fire broke out in the artist's studio. Then the cabaret building burned down, where the painting moved. Later, a fire broke out in the house where the Parisian philanthropist Oscar Schmitz lived. And in each case, the painting remained intact. In 1958, "Lilies" found themselves in the New York Museum of Modern Art, and after 4 months there was also a fire here, but this time the painting was also damaged. This mysterious landscape is just admired by the couple in love in the photo.

August 10

In the vast expanses of Kyrgyzstan, on the Kyrgyz-Chinese border, not far from the legendary Torugart high-altitude pass, lies the remote Tash Rabat valley. In the valley stands a 15th century stone fortress, the Tash Rabat Caravanserai. It has long been a staging post for trade caravans on the Great Silk Road. Local nomads consider Caravanserai a holy place and visit it for prayers.

11th August

The people of Somalia, where drinking water is scarce and of great value, have a hard time. A little Somali shepherdess, who is forced to work on an equal basis with adults, has to spend two to three hours every day on the way to the well to bring water for the goats and her family.

12th of August

As a rule, the most interesting, unexpected photographs are obtained by chance, and then no matter how hard you try to repeat them on purpose, it will not work. This creative photo of the famous London Big Ben is the result of the experiments of the photographer, who played with aperture and shutter speed values, walking along Westminster Bridge in search of interesting subjects.