Natgeo world photo competetion photos

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(Photo and caption by Cesare Naldi)
Nazroo, a mahout (elephant driver), poses for a portrait while taking his elephant, Rajan, out for a swim in front of Radha Nagar Beach in Havelock, Andaman Islands. Rajan is one of the few elephants in Havelock that can swim, so when he is not dragging timber in the forest he is used as a tourist attraction. The relationship between the mahout and his elephant usually lasts for their entire lives, creating an extremely strong tie between the animal and the human being.


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(Photo and caption by David Bismuth)
This picture was taken during the Rinjani volcano trek on Lombok Island in Indonesia at sunrise.

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(Photo and caption by Robin Moore)
A male gelada baboon on the Guassa Plateau of the Ethiopian Highlands enjoys a good grooming.


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(Photo and caption by Tucker Sylvestro)
A stone's-eye- view of two tracks made by the sailing stones of Death Valley's Racetrack playa. The dried clay surface has a beautiful texture, and there is a palpable aura of mystery over the entire three-square- mile playa. The Racetrack was not entirely free of human influence though:
several weeks before this taken many of the stones were stolen, leaving long trails without a traveler at the end.

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(Photo and caption by Richard Susanto)
I took this picture on a sunny fall afternoon on a prairie near Chicago, Illinois. To improve the color saturation, I blocked the sunlight with my body.
The blue background came straight from the camera. The image was not altered with any editor.

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(Photo and caption by Rebecca Latson)
During a rainy, cloudy morning at the Wild Goose scenic overlook on St. Mary Lake in Glacier National Park, Montana, the sun peeped from under the cloud cover long enough to paint a golden-yellow swath across the face of the mountain for maybe 15 minutes before disappearing again.

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(Photo and caption by Brad Maule)
On the final leg of a six-week United States of America road trip, I was driving east across Interstate 40 when a spot storm with golf ball-sized hail struck.
A sign near Groom, Texas, announcing the "largest cross in the western hemisphere" explained the large crucifix
I'd been wondering about for miles on the highway; it seemed like an OK place to wait out the storm.
On my way to getting stuck in the mud and a giant double rainbow, I saw this silhouetted view of the cross, splitting the sunny sky from the stormy plains.


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(Photo and caption by Stephen Martin)
An example of photo luminescence in coral in West Papua

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(Photo and caption by Gail von Bergen Ryan)
I was in the front car of the short subway between Pudong and the Bund, and was treated to the wonderful spectacle of an oncoming train in the tunnel's changing light show. I put my camera up to the window and shot as fast as possible to get this image.


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(Photo and caption by Ian Kelsall)
On my second day visiting the astounding Iguazu falls on the Brazilian side I was forced to change to my telephoto lens as my wide angle had been damaged by the water vapour. In had rained solid for 10 days prior to my arrival and so the falls were at their most spectacular.
Standing on the elevated viewing platform I was able to shoot this school group who stood transfixed, emphasizing the incredible size of the falls.

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(Photo and caption by Gemma Collier)
My grandfather was born and raised on our New Zealand farm. He and my grandmother were married nearly 60 years.
Preparing for a photo in the barley, my grandmother lovingly reached up to adjust his hat. This was his last harvest.

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(Photo and caption by Sean Crane)
A young orangutan swings from tree to tree in Tanjung Puting National Park in Indonesian Borneo.
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