la peau tirée d'un éléphant (en maccro)....

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Une belle coulée de lave... Ca doit être impressionnant sur place...

Chocolat!! Le texte ne le dit pas : mais j'en suis sûre! Du chocolat!

Sinon quoi d'autre... ?

En Suisse...

Kosice, Slovakia, 1993
Photograph by James L. Stanfield
A steel mill sends plumes of smoke into the air of Kosice, Slovakia's second largest city. At the time of Czechoslovakia's split in 1993, a quarter million people inhabited the steel town including Hungarians, Ruthenians, Gypsies, and Poles—a cosmopolitan minority which made up 14% of the new country's population.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Czechoslovakia: The Velvet Divorce," September 1993, National Geographic magazine)

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Rongqi, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China, 1981
Photograph by James P. Blair
Celebrants of the lunar New Year participate in the Lion Dance, a raucous pantomime that dates back to the seventh century. A masked performer teases a vibrantly painted papier-mâché lion which rears its head, roars, snaps its jaws, and charges in rage.

Originally intended to help expel demons, the ceremony is now celebrated annually on the first day of the year’s first lunar month as the Spring Festival. In 2007, it falls on February 18.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Journey Into China, 1982)

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Near Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, 1986
Photograph by George F. Mobley
Thousands of years of wind, water, and glacial erosion have carved out these eerie badlands 400 feet (122 meters) below prairie level in Alberta, Canada’s Horsethief Canyon. Legend has it that during the region’s ranching heyday, horses would sometimes disappear into the canyons and emerge later marked with different brands, hence the canyon’s curious name.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Trans-Canada Highway, 1986)

C'est beau, simplement beau

Namche Bazar, Nepal, 1986
Photograph by James P. Blair
Surrounded by the majestic Himalaya, Sherpas walk along a stone wall in the verdant hillside village of Namche Bazar, Nepal, a last stop on the way to Mount Everest. In recent years, walls and fir saplings have been positioned around the valley to prevent erosion caused by excessive tree cutting in the past.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book, Our World’s Heritage, 1986)

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Poland, 1987
Photograph by James L. Stanfield
Members of a Polish family load hay onto a horse-drawn wagon in a village near the towering Tatra Mountains, seen in the background. Nearly one-third of Poland’s residents work in the agricultural sector, and there are some 2 million privately owned farms that occupy 90 percent of the country’s farmland.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Poland: The Hope That Never Dies," January 1988, National Geographic magazine)

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Kodiak Island, Alaska, 1992
Photograph by George F. Mobley
A lone rock outcropping juts through frozen Pasagshak Bay off Alaska’s Kodiak Island. The Kodiak archipelago is home to the Kodiak bear, the largest subspecies of brown bear, which feasts on the region’s prolific salmon runs.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Wrangell-St. Elias National Park: Alaska’s Sky-High Wilderness,” May 1994, National Geographic magazine)

Aujourd'hui:



Vijayanagar, India, 1986
Photograph by James P. Blair
Silvery waters wend around a tumble of boulders as dhobis (low-caste washermen) wash and beat village laundry on the banks of the Tungabhadra River in Vijayanagar, India. The city, in southern India’s Karnataka state, was once the seat of the Vijayanagar Empire, which dominated the south of India from A.D. 1300 to 1500.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book, Our World’s Heritage, 1986)

Arkansas, United States, 1994
Photograph by Ian C. Martin

Sunlight glints off a tranquil lake in central Arkansas. The site is near historic Arkansas Route 7, which goes through Hot Springs, boyhood home of former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and continues deep into the Ozark National Forest, where signs warn that the road is “crooked and steep,” and weary drivers can stop at a hillbilly trading post called “Booger Hollow.”

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic Book Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways, 1994)

Pinnacle Rock, Bartolome Island, Ecuador, 1986
Photograph by Sam Abell

Pinnacle Rock looms under a brooding sky off the Galápagos’ Bartolome Island. The island’s most famous feature (it even got airtime in the movie, Master and Commander ) is actually an eroded lava formation called a tuff cone. When hot lava from a now-extinct volcano on land reached the sea, the temperature difference caused explosions, producing thousands of thin layers of basalt ash that eventually formed into this towering monument.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Majestic Island Worlds, 1986)

Un peu tard pour mon cvommentaire sur l'image,mais vaut mieux tard que jamais...

J'aime beaucoup le reflet sur la roche et sur la mer,trés jolie...

Photographe: Daniel R. Westergren

Phool Mal, Madhya Pradesh, India, 1988
Photograph by James P. Blair

In the days leading up to the colorful festival of Holi, the Bhil tribes take to the streets to dance and find their future mates. Taking place after the wheat harvest in March, single men and women gather to dance and woo each other during Bhagoria Haat, which means "eloper's fair."

(Text adapted from the National Geographic book Harvest Festivals, 2002)

Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, U.S.A., 1975
Photograph by James L. Amos

Two ivory cattle egrets flex their wings in an age-old ritual of courtship in which potential mates mirror each other's movements. These birds are so named because they are often found near cattle or horses, feeding on the insects these animals attract.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, Watermen's Island Home,� June 1980, National Geographic magazine)

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Cape Neddick, Maine, 1973
Photograph by Robert F. Sisson

Algae-covered rocks line the entrance to the York River near Maine’s Cape Neddick Lighthouse. The historic lighthouse, also called Nubble Light after a small rocky island off the cape’s eastern point, was first illuminated in 1879.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Friendless Squatters of the Sea," November 1973, National Geographic magazine)

edit: Edité

i'm purple : Tu n'aurais pas fait une erreur ???

Parceque les commentaires de ma photo et de la tienne sont identiques

Voila ce qu'il y aurait du avoir:

Tahiti, 1979
Photograph by George F. Mobley

A male goat rests on the exposed root ball of a palm tree on Tahiti Island. Tahiti and her 13 sister islands make up the Society Islands, tiny protrusions of volcanic and coral paradise that dot the South Pacific about halfway between Australia and South America.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Society Islands, Sisters of the Wind," June 1979, National Geographic magazine)

Lake Ohrid, Macedonia, 1983
Photograph by James L. Stanfield

A breeze sends gentle ripples over Lake Ohrid in Macedonia as two fishermen wait patiently for a bite.

Lake Ohrid is known as a "museum of living fossils;" containing 146 endemic species, including 17 types of fish.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Eternal Easter in a Greek Village,� December 1983, National Geographic magazine)

U.S. West, 1994
Photograph by Ian C. Martin

A lone cow saunters across an open road in the western United States. Many western states have open range laws that allow cattle to graze and wander on public lands, occasionally creating perilous conditions for motorists.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways, 1994)

Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1975
Photograph by James L. Amos

A lone man perches on an outcrop on Gunnison Island amid the shimmering expanse of Great Salt Lake, the largest salt lake in the western hemisphere.

Though the lake’s waters are too salty for all but a few hearty species, including brine shrimp and brine flies, its wetlands support millions of migratory shorebirds and waterfowl. The mile-long (1.6-kilometer-long) island, situated on the northwest side of the lake, is home to tens of thousands of pelicans and seagulls.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Utah’s Shining Oasis,” April 1975, National Geographic magazine)

Poland, 1987
Photograph by James L. Stanfield

Sheep graze amid rolling farmlands in southern Poland’s Beskid Mountains. During communist rule, farms in Poland remained privately run. Today, despite further efforts to restructure the country’s agriculture sector, these family-based subsistence farms remain the norm.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Poland: The Hope That Never Dies," January 1988, National Geographic magazine)

The Philippines, 1992
Photograph by Emory Kristof

A blue-spotted rock codfish and a school of smaller fish swim over the sunken hull of the ill-fated Spanish merchant galleon San Diego. The vessel was sunk by a Dutch ship in 1600 in the South China Sea near Fortune Island. Among the wreckage, which settled 170 feet (52 meters) below the sea, were priceless treasures, including Ming dynasty porcelain. A team from the European Institute of Underwater Archaeology discovered the ship in 1991 and recovered much of its cargo.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, “San Diego: An Account of Adventure, Deceit, and Intrigue,” July 1994, National Geographic magazine)

Champaign, Illinois, 1980
Photograph by Robert F. Sisson

A magnified shot shows the head of a tiger swallowtail butterfly larva. These insects are masters of disguise, acquiring false eyespots in their larva stage to give them a snakelike look. In their pupa stage, they resemble broken twigs.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Deception: Formula for Survival,” March 1980, National Geographic magazine)

Alaska, 1969
Photograph by George F. Mobley

Caribou graze on tundra, tinted orange by the sun, somewhere between Nome and Teller on western Alaska’s Seward Peninsula. Caribou share this remote, sub-Arctic expanse with musk oxen, moose, and grizzly bears, among other hearty creatures.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Alaska, 1969)

Tasmania, Australia, 1996
Photograph by Sam Abell

A bare tree stands on a rocky shoreline in Tasmania, a heart-shaped island 150 miles (241 kilometers) south of the Australian mainland. The forbidding landscape of Tasmania, or “Tassie,� as locals call it, was the site of numerous British penal colonies, beginning in the early 1800s.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Australia’s Best Kept Secret,� Sept./Oct. 1996, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

Arctic Ocean, Northwest Territories, Canada, 1983
Photograph by Emory Kristof
A smear of red in a desert of pale ice, the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Labrador trudges through the frozen landscape of the Arctic Ocean in Canada’s Northwest Territories.

The Canadian Coast Guard was part of a mission to explore the sunken wreckage of the H.M.S. Breadalbane, a British ship that went down in the 1850s while on a mission to find survivors of the ill-fated Franklin expedition to map the Northwest Passage.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Exploring a 140-Year-Old Ship Under Arctic Ice,” July 1983, National Geographic magazine)

Panama, 1977
Photograph by George F. Mobley
A young margay cat peeks over a step at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute station on Barro Colorado, a forested island in the Panama Canal waterway. The island rises from Lake Gatun, which formed in 1907 when the Chagres River was dammed during construction of the canal.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Panama Canal Today," February 1978, National Geographic magazine)

Loango National Park, Gabon, 2003
Photograph by Michael Nichols
In a true play of might makes right, a mature ghost crab threatens a juvenile on the sands of Loango National Park. The park, too, is waging its own battles against poachers, oil companies, and piles of litter. In one day, trash collectors gathered 535 plastic bottles, 560 intact flip-flops, 4 refrigerators, and 2,240 other bits of debris from 1,640 feet (500 meters) of beach.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Gabon's Loango National Park: In the Land of the Surfing Hippos," August 2004, National Geographic magazine)

Mono Lake, California, 1982
Photograph by James P. Blair
Spires of limestone tufa rise from the shores of California’s Mono Lake. Tufa form when underwater springs rich in calcium meet lake water rich in carbonates, forming calcium carbonate, or limestone. The limestone precipitates in layers over time and can grow more than 30 feet (9 meters) high. Mono Lake’s tufa are particularly dramatic because water diversions have significantly lowered the lake’s level, exposing more of the columns.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic special publication, Our Threatened Inheritance, 1982.)

Inishbofin Island, Ireland, 1994
Photograph by Sam Abell
An emerald pasture dotted with daisies and flanked by distant sand dunes rolls to the foot of a rustic gate and a stone wall on the Irish island of Inishbofin. Picturesque scenes like this are plentiful on the windy Aran Islands, but tourism driven by the many bed-and-breakfasts, golf courses, and ferries, is taking a toll on these once-rural landscapes.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Ireland on Fast-Forward," September 1994, National Geographic magazine)

Canberra, Australia, 1974
Photograph by Robert F. Sisson
Pincers poised and eyes gleaming, a bulldog ant surveys its surroundings. These aggressive ants, named for their propensity to latch onto objects, are well known in Australia for their large size and painful sting.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “At Home with the Bulldog Ant,” July 1974, National Geographic magazine)

Kathmandu, Nepal, 1979
Photograph by John Scofield
A spotted deer buck attends to a doe in the Central Zoo of Kathmandu, Nepal. Opened in 1932 as a place to house the private animal collection of the current prime minister, the zoo is now run by a non-profit nature conservation trust. It maintains exhibits of some of Nepal’s most well known and endangered fauna, including one-horned Indian rhinos, Bengal tigers, and the clouded leopard.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Kathmandu’s Remarkable Newars," February 1979, National Geographic magazine)

Rocks Provincial Park, New Brunswick, Canada, 1990
Photograph by James P. Blair
The sculpted silhouettes of Hopewell Rocks rise from the muddy waters of the Bay of Fundy in Canada’s New Brunswick province. These sandstone-and-conglomerate sea stacks were spared during the glacial sweep of the last ice age, but bear the effects of centuries of tidal erosion. The Bay of Fundy sees some of the world’s greatest tidal variability, and the constant flow continues to shape these rocks.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic special publication Canada’s Incredible Coast, 1990)

Marsabit National Reserve, Kenya, 1969
Photograph by Bruce Dale
Long ears and an almost giraffe-like neck identify this gerenuk, or Waller's gazelle, standing in a clearing in Marsabit National Reserve in northern Kenya. The 579-square-mile (1,500-square-kilometer) park opened in 1967 and provides protection to some of Africa's most iconic animals, including elephants, kudu, leopards, and ostriches.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Kenya Says Harambee," February 1969, National Geographic magazine)

Warwick, England, 1966
Photograph by George F. Mobley
A peacock, perhaps competing with the surrounding flora, struts in full regalia amid the roses and manicured hedges of an English garden.

A peacock’s brilliant tail feathers, or coverts, make up more than 60 percent of the bird’s total body length and are usually deployed during courtship displays.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “900 Years Ago: The Norman Conquest,” August 1966, National Geographic magazine)

Mahabalipuram, India, 1986
Photograph by James P. Blair
Lacy tree branches cast their shadows on the Five Raths, seventh century Dravidian shrines to Hindu gods each carved from a single, massive granite boulder. The temples, located in Mahabalipuram in southern India, are, from left to right: The Ganesha Rath, the Durga cell, the Arjana Rath, the Bhima Rath, and the Dharmaraja Rath. The monuments were named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book, Our World’s Heritage , 1986)

Gulf of Alaska, Alaska, USA, 1998
Photograph by Karen Kasmauski
A sea otter shares the waters of Alaska’s foggy Prince William Sound with a spill-containment vessel nearly a decade after the Exxon Valdez ran aground and fouled these pristine waters with 11 million gallons (40 million liters) of crude oil. Intense clean-up efforts after the disaster lasted more than four years.

Now, evidence of the spill is hard to detect. But some beaches still have Valdez oil buried just below the surface. And scientists say some animal species, including sea otters, harbor seals, harlequin ducks, and herring, have yet to recover from the spill’s negative effects.

(Photograph from "In the Wake of the Spill: Ten Years After Exxon Valdez," March 1999, National Geographic magazine)

Lake Hoare, Antarctica, 1998
Photograph by Maria Stenzel

Antarctica’s perennially ice-covered Lake Hoare bears the scars of sand and dirt that have worked their way from the surface down into the ice. Soil blows onto the lake from a nearby dry valley, warms in the sun, and melts downward, leaving a bubble column in its trail.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Timeless Valleys of the Antarctic Desert," October 1998, National Geographic magazine)

Triesenberg, Liechenstein, 1973

Photograph by Walter Meayers Edwards

Cows graze amid a blanket of flowers in a pasture in the mountainous central European principality of Liechtenstein. The small huts that dot the landscape store hay and provide shelter for cattle during the winter. The Rhine River is visible in the distant valley.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book The Alps, 1973)

Grasse, France, 1973
Photograph by George F. Mobley
A honeybee forages for pollen among cineraria flowers in Alpes-Maritimes in southeastern France. Alpes-Maritimes is home to Grasse, a flower-strewn medieval town known for the past two centuries as the perfume capital of France.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book The Alps, 1973)

London, England, 1985
Photograph by Robert W. Madden
English cavalry soldiers in ceremonial capes and white-cockaded helmets sit their mounts before the Horse Guards building in central London. Until 1841, when Trafalgar Square was opened, the only way to access St. James and Buckingham Palace, home of the British royals, was through the Horse Guards building.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Discovering Britain and Ireland, 1985)

Beijing, China, 1982
Photograph by Dean Conger
Rental rowboats crowd a shoreline of Beijing’s Kunming Lake. The Temple of Buddhist Incense, with its multi-tiered roof, rises from the famed Summer Palace on Longevity Hill in the background. The opulent Summer Palace complex, located on the western edge of Beijing, was built in the mid-1700s as a retreat for Qing Dynasty imperial rulers.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Journey Into China, 1982)

Panama, 1977
Photograph by George F. Mobley
A margay cat balances on a seemingly undersized tree branch on Barro Colorado Island. Though only 3,865 acres (1,564 hectares), the island, located in the Panama Canal waterway, is home to an amazing array of flora and fauna, including 1,369 plant species, 93 mammal species, and 366 bird species.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Panama Canal Today," February 1978, National Geographic magazine)

Mahabalipuram, India, 1986
Photograph by James P. Blair
Waves from the Bay of Bengal lap at the 40-foot-wide (12-meter-wide) stone embankment surrounding the Shore Temples in Mahabalipuram, a seaside town in Tamil Nadu, India. These seventh and eighth century Dravidian relics with Buddhist elements are temples to the Hindu gods Vishnu and Shiva. The monuments in Mahabalipuram were named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book, Our World’s Heritage, 1986)

Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1986
Photograph by George F. Mobley
A spring blizzard blankets Calgary with snow. Born as a cow town, Calgary boomed with later discoveries of rich oil and gas fields in Alberta.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in the National Geographic book Traveling the Trans-Canada from Newfoundland to British Columbia, 1987)

Bon sang ce qu'il fait froid au Canada