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National Geographic - Sunday Stills
| Sunday Stills |
ISSUE 15
Sunday, May 11, 2014
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| Photograph by Steven Chou |
For this Your Shot assignment, embrace the universal language of a smile.
“Avoid the polite, posed, studio smile,” says Marie McGrory, editor of the assignment. Show us “the incredible things and people that make you smile each day, or the fleeting moments that make the sides of your mouth curl upwards ever so slightly.”
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| PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY INTERNET ARCHAEOLOGY/JESSE CASANA, JACKSON COTHREN, AND TUNA KALAYCI |
A study of Cold War spy-satellite photos has tripled the number of known archaeological sites across the Middle East, revealing thousands of ancient cities, roads, canals, and other ruins.
The new Corona Atlas of the Middle East, unveiled recently at the Society for American Archaeology’s annual meeting, moves spy-satellite science to a new level. Surveying land from Egypt to Iran—and encompassing the Fertile Crescent, the renowned cradle of civilization and location of some of humanity’s earliest cities—the atlas reveals numerous sites that had been lost to history. |
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| Photograph by Daniel Kudish |
| “As an artist, I never feel like I am done growing and am always thirsty to learn something new,” says Your Shot member Daniel Kudish. Last fall, Kudish had the opportunity to photograph the Day of the Dead—or Dia de los Muertos—in Mexico while attending National Geographic photographer David Alan Harvey’s workshop. Take a look at some of his images. |
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| A pair of double-bar goatfish (male and female) spawn at dusk in the waters off Millennium Atoll in the central South Pacific. These remote reefs remain largely unspoiled, with healthy fish biomass and coral cover up to 100 percent in most locations. Coverage from an upcoming story in @natgeo about the Southern Line Islands. @thephotosociety @natgeocreative #pristineseas #kiribati #subal |
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| photograph by Diogo Pereira |
| “Once I asked a lady if I could take a portrait of her, and she said to me, ‘Ho, no, no way, I’m terrible right now. I don’t have the proper clothing, and I don’t have any makeup,’” says Your Shot contributor Diogo Pereira. “I finally persuaded her and I took a portrait of her. This is why I love taking street portraits; people aren’t expecting that they’ll be photographed that day, so they’re dressed as normal as possible and don’t have any makeup on, [the way they would if] they were about to start a photography session in a studio. People that I photograph are themselves—they don’t add anything that they wouldn’t have or use or wear on a regular day.” |
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