The best photos of the outgoing week (August 15-21) from National Geographic

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

At the end of the week, as usual, a new selection of the best photos from the team National Geographic … As always, interesting, bright, memorable, and sometimes just magical, unearthly photographs from all over the world.

August 15

When there is a flood in Bangladesh, residents know what to do. The same as these resourceful children: climb onto the bamboo masts in the yard and hold on tight. Photo by Jonas Bendiksen.

16 august

Orphan elephants are not much different from orphaned children. They are just as frightened, they also require increased attention and care, and when they get into the company of other elephants, the process of socialization of these elephants is read as soon as the deepest wounds heal. Both mental and physical. In the photo, Michael Nichols (Michael Nichols) two orphaned elephants and their "tutor".

17 august

Pictured Lynsey Addario are visitors to Baghdad's first 4-D cinema, who have come here for the extra thrill of car chases, hurricanes and other special effects of modern surround cinema. During the worst times, when Baghdad was violent, unsafe and unsettled, families stayed at home to watch TV or DVDs. Most of the cinemas are still closed today, as they were, but the government plans to reopen them soon.

August 18

The festival of lights in Myanmar (Burma) is traditionally held in October so that people can pay tribute to their ancestors. A three-day festival of lights is held to mark the conclusion of the Buddhist equivalent of fasting. This is an amazing sight - it seems that millions of fireflies have gathered in the square, or a whole lake of flaming lava has spilled out. Photo by Chien-Chi Chang.

August 19

Photographer Michael Melford, who visited the Adirondack Mountains, which is located in the Appalachian system in northeastern New York, could not resist taking with him a piece of beauty there. This "piece" was a photograph of the morning fog enveloping the surface of Bear Pond and the valley below Mount St. Regis.

20 august

Sea lions, as the largest representatives of eared seals are called, were protected by a law prohibiting hunting back in the 1970s, and this time their population in British Columbia and neighboring waters tripled. So, during the summer breeding season, there were about 30,000 individuals. In the photo of Thomas P. Peschak - some of the most curious sea lions.

August 21

The same Michael Melford and the same Adirondack mountain range. But this time, the photo captures a startling moment of the changing seasons. So, the summer green color of the viburnum leaf is gradually giving way to a red, autumn color. So gradually, step by step, leaf by leaf, autumn takes over on watch …