While a picture may be worth a thousand words, pictures often need some explanation especially in news/journalism and documentary as an example. The quality of the caption is as important as the quality of the image. Sometimes the caption is all the "viewer" has. This would be true for visually impaired people for example.
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FIJI ISLANDS: Somosomo Strait
Schooling bannerfish off Fiji’s Rainbow Reef blissfully ignore the camera. Each of the plankton eaters is the size of a hand.
Photograph by Tim Laman
“Fiji’s Rainbow Reefs,” November 2004
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/pictures2004/wallpaper07.html
COSTA RICA: Monteverde Cloud Forest
You can almost see through this Fleischmann’s glass frog in a terrarium. Monthly surveys in the 1990s found no more than eight of the inch-and-a-half-long (four-centimeter-long) frogs along a 394-foot (120-meter) stretch of the R�o Gu�cimal. A 1980 study had estimated 300.
Photograph by Peter Essick
“Signs From Earth: EcoSigns,” September 2004
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/pictures2004/wallpaper03.html
La Mouthe (Dordogne) Entrance to the sanctuary
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/
1.John Rattray, backside 50-50.
2.Silas Baxter-Neal with a warm-up bluntslide.
1)Orange cup coral clusters on a pier piling on Bonaire Island in the West Indies. About 80 percent of all life on Earth is found in the oceans, which cover 71 percent of the planet's surface.
Photograph by Paul A. Sutherland
2)Microbe-rich stromatolite reefs, like this one in Shark Bay, Australia, were among the first sources of oxygen on Earth. They flourished throughout the planet's shallow waters 3.5 billion years ago, but are extremely rare today.
Photograph by O. Louis Mazzatenta
Miami Dade police officers carry the casket of slain police officer Jose Somohano, who was killed in the line of duty.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1666750,00.html
Left, a satellite view of a village fire in Burma. Right, Burmese soldiers block a road in the city center of Rangoon, Burma.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1666734,00.html
Chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarctica) ride out high surf on blue-ice icebergs near Candlemas Island in the South Sandwich Islands. Safe for the moment from predaceous leopard seals, chinstrap penguins are the second most abundant species in Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic.
link: http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/extreme-earth.html?nav=DL1
Travertine chimneys near Lake Abbe, Djibouti, were created by hot springs depositing calcium carbonate—the same process that creates stalactites and stalagmites. Some of the formations reach 165 feet (50 meters) near the lake located on the Ethiopia-Djibouti border.
Link:
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/extreme-earth/travertine-chimneys-photography.html
Glowing Skyline, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1953
Photograph by Volkmar Wentzel
"The glow of an atomic bomb test at Yucca Flat, Nevada, 65 miles [104.6 kilometers] away, draws Las Vegas casino workers on March 17, 1953. [National Geographic magazine's] Sam Matthews watched from a tarpaper-lined trench just two miles [3.2 kilometers] from the explosion. 'The atomic fireball rose in the sky, a giant sphere of orange and black, tongues of fire amid billowing soot,' he wrote. Though this photo was probably shot for his June 1953 article 'Nevada Learns to Live With the Atom,' it has never before been published in the magazine."
—From Flashback, November 2002, National Geographic magazine
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/glowing-skyline.html
Trophy Rhino, Africa, 1909
Photograph by C. E. Akeley
"A picture of a black rhino helped illustrate 'Where Roosevelt Will Hunt,' a story by Sir Harry Johnston in the March 1909 National Geographic."
—From the National Geographic book Through the Lens: National Geographic's Greatest Photographs, 2003
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/trophy-rhino.html
Spectators watch as a Delta II rocket with the Dawn spacecraft aboard lifts off on Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/09/26/dawn.mission.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText
"World of Warcraft" players earn gold by going on adventures, but they also can buy it online.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/10/01/videogame.cheating.ap/index.html
http://news.yahoo.com/page/week_in_photos
Week of July 28-Aug. 3 2007
Picture #1:
Finishing Touches
Australian artist Nike Savvas makes final adjustments to "Atomix-Full of Love, Full of Wonder" on Thursday, Aug. 3, at the New South Wales Art Gallery in Sydney. The piece uses more than 50,000 polystryrene balls.
Picture #7:
Like Moths to a ...
A resident of Tudela, Spain observes moths swarming around a streetlight on Wednesday, Aug. 2. Every summer hundreds of moths fly around the city's streetlights for 10 minutes before dying
1. A baby harp seal rests on the Arctic ice. Its mother can distinguish it from hundreds of others by scent alone.
2. Lynxes are known for the black tufts of fur on the tips of their ears and their thick fur.
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/photos/baby-animals.html
The famously imposing Arc de Triomphe memorializes military victory and marks the crossroads of 12 streets.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Places/Images/Paris/arc-de-triumphe-ga.jpg
Framed by screened panels, bungalows at the Bora Bora Nui Resort assume an air of mystery. By photographing through the screens (from the resort's restaurant), Krist created an impressionistic effect.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/traveler/images/galleries/borabora0601/borabora_gal4.jpg
1. "Sun bears are so named because of the bib-shaped patch on their chests, which legend says represents the rising sun."
Photograph by Anup Shah/Animals Animals-Earth Scenes
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/enlarge/sun-bear_image.html
2. "Known as African wild, painted, or Cape hunting dogs, these endangered canines closely resemble wolves in their pack-oriented social structure."
Photograph by Chris Johns
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/enlarge/african-wild-dog-lookout_image.html
1. A purplish twilight sky over Georgia's Cumberland Island National Seashore glows as fingers of lightning spread among the clouds.
http://green.nationalgeographic.com/environment/photos/lightning-general.html
Perched above the lighted city of Catania, Italy, Mount Etna hurls a fountain of fire skyward as rivers of lava spill down its flanks. In spite of its dazzling displays, Mount Etna is a relatively safe volcano with rare, compact eruptions and slow-flowing lava that gives people a chance to escape.
http://green.nationalgeographic.com/environment/photos/volcano-general/cataniaeruption.html
1. Flamboyant, radiantly beautiful, Venice owes her grandeur to the sea, a bond celebrated yearly through regattas such as the Vogalonga. Today it is a human tide that washes over her—millions come to capture a glimmer of her charms.
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/gallery/photos-italy-venice_st.marks-square.html
2.Memory-haunted arena of the ancients, Rome’s 1,900-year-old Colosseum saw bloody gladiatorial duels, battles with wild beasts, and mock naval engagements on its flooded floor. Christians banned the spectacles, and in later centuries presented church dramas here.
Time, earthquakes, and stone scavengers took their toll. Still, the treasured monument survived and at the time of this photograph was still serving Rome—as a traffic circle.
Cars at evening rush hour create streaks of light in this time exposure, which also captures horse-drawn carriages waiting at curbside for tourists.
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/gallery/italy_colosseum-at-night.html
A model walks down the catwalk during the MaxMara show as part of Milan Fashion Week Spring Summer 2008 on September 27, 2007 in Milan, Italy.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1665795_1665797,00.html
Ryan Boatright at the Northwest Community Park in Plainville, Illinois on September 22, 2007.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1666283,00.html
An Emperor penguin wearing a Crittercam in Antarctica
Photograph by Greg Marshall
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/
Newly bred transparent frogs don't need to be dissected to see their internal organs and blood vessels
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071001-frogs-video.html
http://www.best-wallpapers.net/wallpapers/Pictures/National_Geographic_Wallpapers_043_3252.jpg
http://tdias.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/national-geographic-wallpapers-041.jpg
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