A must do, at least once before I die.
Sami Herder, Scandinavia
Photo: Erika LarsenCone-shaped tents called lavut provide temporary shelter for Sami herders while following the reindeer. Nils Peder Gaup, resting here on the tundra, feels most at home in the mountains. “The Sami spirit follows you,” he says.
Spirit Bear
Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia
Photo: Paul NicklenIn a moss-draped rain forest in British Columbia, towering red cedars live a thousand years, and black bears are born with white fur.
“Paul Nicklen is a master at getting closer. He gets close enough to take this beautiful forest with this beautiful bear, eating a salmon, and make it all come together in a photograph that captures your imagination. I feel like I’m there. I can almost smell that forest, the bear. This is Paul’s home. This looks like a photo he took in his backyard of a dear friend.”
—Chris Johns, Editor in Chief
We are all searching for the answers
some of us find it in love which is a cover for hate
Where exactly can those answers be found?
Is it carved in a statue we call god?
Is the wise words of grey old people?
or are the answers simply blowing in the wind?
Some of us never find it
some of us question it
many of us do not realize it.
All of us still don’t know it.
Morning Fog, Adirondacks
Photograph by Michael Melford, National Geographic
Morning fog shrouds the surface of Bear Pond and the valleys below St. Regis Mountain.
Octopus, Hawaii
Photograph by Joshua Lambus
An octopus I came across on a dive sometimes referred to as a “blackwater hang.” About three miles off the coast of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.
