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Not bad for an amateur effort… Amateur photographers have submitted photos for National Geographic's 125th anniversary. Wish you were here?
Your Shot: Beautiful images from the readers of National Geographic
National Geographic magazine turned 125 this month, with an anniversary issue devoted to the power of photography. The magazine moves the birthday celebration off its pages with the October 1st public launch of a photo-sharing platform, Your Shot (NGYourShot.com), that allows photography fans to connect with photographers and editors around virtual assignments, get direct feedback on their work and participate in a unique photography-based community. One of the magazine’s young star photographers, Cory Richards, will usher in the month as lead curator of the magazine’s first assignment on Your Shot.
Led by Richards and his magazine photo editor, Sadie Quarrier, the assignment invites
photographers to share three images that convey how photography can help us explore our changing world. Throughout the assignment, Richards and Quarrier will provide photo tips and feedback on the images that are submitted along with direction on what they feel will best help tell the story. Their favorite photograph will be selected to appear in a future issue of National Geographic magazine. Participants must join Your Shot, National Geographic’s free online photo community and storytelling platform, to submit photos to the assignment, which runs until Oct. 22. (National Geographic)
Here's a look at some of the offers for the first assignment, "Explore our Changing World" and links to the galleries of the photographers.
Photograph and caption by Junichi Saito, National Geographic Your Shot - Seagull - Feeding a seagull.
Photograph and caption by Wayne Panepinto, National Geographic Your Shot - Perfect Catch - I'm amazed how easy the sea lions catch their food. I'm very happy for sea lion Lily and Seneca Park Zoo with the Daily Dozen end results
Photograph and caption by Rolf Maeder, National Geographic Your Shot - Night of Lightning at Grand Canyon - It was such a wonderful experience to witness this beautiful thunderstorm far across the Grand Canyon
Photograph and caption by Junaid Ahmed, National Geographic Your Shot - People at Prayer - Ijtema is the second largest muslim gatherings in the world after Hazz.The gatherings is so huge that people did not get place at the field to pray jumma prayer and sited themselves at road
Photograph and caption by Ryan Deboodt, National Geographic Your Shot - Camp inside Hang Son Doong - After two days of trekking and caving, we reach the first camp inside Hang Son Doong, the world's largest cave
Photograph and caption by Dimitris Maroulakis, National Geographic Your Shot - Weightless - Freediver slides peacefully over sea bed in the blue hole area of Vouliagmeni.
Photograph and caption by Noel Kerns, National Geographic Your Shot - Meteorite - Abandoned farmhouse near Sanger, Texas. 3-minute exposure under a 3/4 moon, f/5.6, ISO 200. Interior of house light-painted with X2000 flashlights
Photograph and caption by Arati Rao
Photograph and caption by Arati Rao, National Geographic Your Shot - Best Shelter Ever - A baby shelters under its mother one late afternoon in Sri Lanka
Photograph and caption by Eiko Jones, National Geographic Your Shot - Cloud of Tadpoles - While photographing lilies in a local swamp a cloud of tadpoles swam by numbering in the thousands, all following along in a trail
Photograph and caption by Andrew Inaba, National Geographic Your Shot - The Ice Caves - Granite Falls, Washington is home to the Big Four Ice Caves; A large network of tunnels formed from heaps of avalanche-deposited snow, and hollowed by cascading water and warm winds. Spectacle and beauty must come with respect, as the ice is prone to collapse and cave-ins
