A Lenticular Cloud Over the Merapi Volcano in Java, Indonesia Lenticular (stationary, lens-shaped) clouds often appear above mountains. Click here to watch how they’re formed.
First prize of $6,000 went to David Ducharme for this sculpture – “Sofia’s Cradle” – depicting the Greek goddess of wisdom. The cradle beneath her resembles a nest, “a space,” Ducharme explained, “where wisdom…
Lotomau Fiafia, 72, a community elder on Kioa Island in Fiji, stands with his grandson at the point where he remembers the shoreline used to be when he was a boy.
A finalist in this year’s Smithsonian Magazine photo contest, this photo by Frederic Aranda shows costume/set designer John Macfarlane at work on set cloths for the Valencia Opera’s production of Tchaikovsky’s…
A Secretary Bird Swallowing Its Prey Here’s how the photographer, Dr. Johann J. Botha, describes what we’re seeing here: “The secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) is an endangered species, but you do come…
The real photo of a real flamingo that won an AI photography competition.
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