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Top Shot: On to Greener Pastures
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
“In the early morning the buffaloes are brought out of the barn,” writes Your Shot photographer Seyit Konyali. “The cowboy takes them to the most beautiful pastures. There are between 600 and 1000 buffalo in the herd. In the evening, buffalos return home. This small lake is refreshing for them.” Photograph by Seyit Konyali
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Top Shot: Monkeying Around with Golden Hour
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
Your Shot photographer Hiren Kadikar documented this dazzling moment of monkeys while she was on a walk during golden hour. Photograph by Hiren Kadikar
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Top Shot: A Thousand Waterfalls
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
“I’m back in Manila after an epic six-day road trip around East Java,” writes Your Shot photographer Sherwin Magsino. “Sharing one of my favorite shots from the trip, the stunning Tumpak Sewu, which means ‘a thousand waterfalls.’ I sometimes get asked about my favorite place I’ve been to. This would have to be right up there on my list!” Photograph by Sherwin Magsino
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Top Shot: Golden Mirror
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
Your Shot photographer Q-lieb In captured this golden frames on the shores of Arambol, India as a dog walked on the shoreline. Photograph by Q-lieb In
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Top Shot: Today’s Catch
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
“The vulture was trekking the hyena while it was running away with its catch. The hyena stopped all of a sudden and the vulture flew over it. The proud hyena must be thinking ‘I got you there!’” Photograph by Chan Onn Fong
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Top Shot: Upon Reflection…
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
Your Shot photographer Kent Mok used a reflection in Hong Kong to document this quiet moment in the city. Photograph by Kent Mok
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Top Shot: Portrait of a Puffin
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“Hiking around the cliffs of Mykines in The Faroe Islands, I spotted a puffin sitting on the edge of the rocks below watching the waves come crashing in,” writes Your Shot photographer Paul Boomsma. Photograph by Paul Boomsma
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Top Shot: Out of the Dust
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
“All 5 species of rhinos are either critically endangered, vulnerable or threatened. When the world’s last male white rhino died, something of mankind died with it too,” writes Your Shot photographer Shobha Gopinath. “For years they have been hunted for the supposed medicinal value of their horn. When will man learn to share this planet with our fellow creatures? This image of the baby rhino with its mother [in Cape Town, South Africa] standing still in the midst of a swirling sandstorm seemed like a perfect metaphor of their vulnerability.” Photograph by Shobha Gopinath
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Top Shot: Waking from a Bear Nap
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
“A polar bear wakes and stretches from an afternoon nap on the ice sheet near Svalbard before beginning its search for food,” writes Your Shot photographer Jim Guerard. Photograph by Jim Guerard
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Top Shot: In a Fog
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
“Every summer we get to experience this incredible phenomenon of low summer fog rolling over the hills into the city,” writes Your Shot photographer Tanmay Sapkal. “When hot inland temperatures create a low-pressure zone over Northern California’s Central Valley, hot inland air rises and the heavier cold ocean air rushes in to replace it. This flow from the high to the low-pressure zone pulls the fog through the Golden Gate passage and into the Bay.” Photograph by Tanmay Sapkal
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Top Shot: Good Morning, El Capitan
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
“It was a foggy morning and at the time we were about to give up, the sunlight came for a very short time to show this beautiful view of El Capitan in Yosemite,” writes Your Shot photographer Dzung Tran. Photograph by Dzung Tran
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Top Shot: Suspended in Flight
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Your Shot photographer Arindam Saha documented this pair of baya weavers frozen in action near a nest. The baya weavers are known for their bulbous nests in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Photograph by Arindam Saha
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Top Shot: Facing the Giant
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
Your Shot photographer Jasper Ivan Iturriaga made this photograph while facing the Skógafoss waterfall in Skógar, Iceland. He writes, “This waterfall is one of my favorite waterfalls in the country.” Photograph by Jasper Ivan Iturriaga
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Top Shot: Total Eclipse of the Jelly
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
Your Shot photographer Hannah Mitchell photographed this large Haeckel’s Jellyfish as it floated across the sun-rays shining through the water’s surface near Adelaide, Australia. Photograph by Hannah Mitchell
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Top Shot: Grandeur at Glacier
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
“We witnessed a beautiful storm one evening while visiting Glacier National Park,” writes Your Shot photographer Beth Mancuso. “At first, a double rainbow appeared and then as the rainbow began to fade mammatus clouds emerged. It was one of the most beautiful sites I have ever seen!” Photograph by Beth Mancuso
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Top Shot: Me and my Mum
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
“On a recent trip to the Masai Mara we came across a lioness and her cub going out for an early morning walk,” writes Your Shot photographer Ivan Glaser. “It was a beautiful scene in beautiful early morning light.” Photograph by Ivan Glaser
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Top Shot: Making a Quick Pitstop
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
Your Shot photographer Daniel International photographed this hummingbird as it visited his garden. Hummingbirds have a larger hippocampus in their brains which allow them to be able to remember flowers in their territory. Photograph by Daniel International
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