Photo of the Day: March 2022
Transgender activist Laxmi Narayan Tripathi prays to Lord Shiva while taking a holy dip in the Ganges River during Kumbh Mela, a major festival and pilgrimage in Hinduism. Tripathi founded an ascetic order called Kinnar Akhada, whose members are primarily transgender women.
A manatee swims in Crystal River Reserve, Florida. An April 2013 story documented the tension between humans and manatees, which are threatened by boats, entanglement, and algae blooms.
Women apply makeup before filming a dance sequence for a movie in Bhutan. This photo was part of coverage for a March 2008 story on Bhutan, but wasn't published until the October 2013 issue, which celebrated 125 of National Geographic photography.
A story in the October 2018 issue documented some of the last remaining isolated tribes in the Amazon. The Juruá River, pictured here, runs along the Peru-Brazil border, and falls victim to illegal logging.
A butterfly hunter rests in a remote Indonesian forest while searching for rare butterflies. The August 2018 issue featured a story that documented the hidden world of the butterfly trade.
Young women line up to compete in an athletic competition in São Paulo, Brazil, in the early 1940s. This photo appeared in a wide-ranging story on Brazil, covering thousands of miles, in the October 1942 issue.
At the Shaolin Temple in Zhengzhou, China, Buddhist monks use their arms to measure the circumference of a cypress tree.
The November 1917 issue broke up stories of war and strife with a section called "Gems from Scotland," which was just 16 idyllic photos from the country with no accompanying essay. Here, three Scottish terrier puppies rest from playing in a field.
A massive F4 category tornado rampages through a field near Manchester, South Dakota. A story in the April 2004 issue documented a research team working to place probes in the paths of tornados.
The April 2010 issue was devoted to water. This photo appeared in a story called "The Burden of Thirst," which documented the lengths people in parts of Africa must go to get enough fresh water for their families, livestock, and crops.
A lush forest engulfs Sam's River Loop Trail in Olympic National Park, Washington. This photo appeared among other vibrant landscape photos in a July 2004 story about the national park, which features a rain forest thought to be the wettest place in the continental U.S.
A story in the April 2001 issue documented the global flower trade. Here, workers cut and box gerbera daisies in a Dutch nursery.
A man in a canoe peers into the waters of Botswana's Okavango River. A story in the December 2004 issue documented the lush life in the delta, generated by annual floods.
A story called "Building a New American Dream" in the September 2018 issue documented the ways South Asian Americans are creating a unique cultural identity. Here, women celebrate Holi in Richmond Hill, a neighborhood in Queens, New York.
Pilgrims climb Croagh Patrick in County Mayo, Ireland, on Reek Sunday. The tradition, which occurs on the last Sunday in July, is in honour of St. Patrick, and dates back hundreds of years.
A mother panda tends to her infant at Bifengxia Panda Centre in Sichuan Province, China. This photo appeared in an August 2016 story about China's efforts to raise pandas and release them into the wild.
A story in the August 1978 issue looked at the many uses of aluminium. Here, a woman in Cape Coral, Florida, collects beer cans for recycling.
A story in the February 1993 issue followed the Mekong River from its origins in western China to the delta in Vietnam. Here, a house on stilts stays safe from floods in southern Cambodia, in which the Mekong rose 25 feet.
This photograph of young Japanese girls posing with cherry blossom branches was taken sometime before 1918 by Eliza Scidmore. Scidmore was the first woman to sit on the National Geographic Society's board of trustees, and she is also considered to be Nat Geo's first female photographer.
People dive into a river in El Yunque National Forest, an hour outside San Juan, Puerto Rico. This picture appeared in a March 2003 story about the culture and political future of Puerto Rico.
A family harvests onions in Mahārāshtra, India. This picture appeared in a November 2009 story about the ways Indian farmers have created watersheds to improve reliable access to water.
Members of the Palmer Society, a campus women’s organisation, celebrate their graduation from Whittier College in California. This picture originally appeared in the July 2018 issue, in a story called, "How Latinos are Shaping America's Future."
When sea ice ages, the salt sinks into the ocean, leaving fresh, drinkable water on top. In this picture from the September 2019 issue, a young Inuit girl fills a teapot with water to take back to her family's hunting camp in northern Canada.
An American crocodile swims through the waters of the Gardens of the Queen National Marine Park in Cuba. Male American crocodiles can grow to be 20 feet long, and weigh as much as one ton.
