FOTOS ESPECTACULARES DE TODO EL MUNDO

The Hubble telescope drifts back into space with Earth as its backdrop on Christmas Day 1999 following a successful servicing mission. Seven astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery completed three spacewalks over six days to replace the telescope's worn and outdated equipment, including its failing gyroscopes, and perform several maintenance upgrades. Astronauts had a firm return day for this mission—they needed to finish their work and return to Earth before New Year's Day to avoid possible Y2K problems. They landed safely on December 27.
Photograph courtesy NASA

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin became the second person to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. Commander Neil Armstrong, the first on the moon, captured this image—one of the most famous photographs of the 20th century—soon after the lunar lander Eagle touched down in the Sea of Tranquility.
Photograph courtesy NASA

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The red-topped lighthouse on Makapu'u Point stands at the end of a long, fence-lined trail in the southeast corner of Hawaii's Oahu island. Built in 1909, Makapu'u Lighthouse is only 46 feet (14 meters) tall, but its light, concentrated by the largest lens in America, can be seen 28 miles (45 kilometers) out at sea.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "ZipUSA: Waimanalo, Hawaii," February 2001, National Geographic magazine)

The city of Tel Aviv, Israel, radiates from the Saint Pierre Church, nestled in the city's Ha Pisga Gardens. Formed in 1950 by the merging of the ancient port of Jaffa with the then-suburb of Tel Aviv, Israel's largest urban center is home to more than three million people, most of the country's industrial plants, and its only stock exchange.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Israel: Searching for the Center," July 1985, National Geographic magazine)

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Photograph by James Stanfield

A solar phenomenon known as a sundog arcs over the tundra in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Sundogs are fairly common occurrences in the Arctic and Antarctic. They form when the sun is near the horizon and ice crystals high in the sky line up in a way that bends the solar rays like a prism.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Refuge in White: Winter in a Canadian National Park," December 2005, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Norbert Rosing

Built as the hilltop home of Athens's patron goddess, Athena, the Acropolis—and its most famous structure, the Parthenon, at right—recall the classical area of the ancient city-state that witnessed a brilliant flowering of art, architecture, philosophy, and democracy in the fifth century B.C. Today, government, tourism, and shipping dominate the economy in Greece's modern-day capital.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Alexander the Conqueror," March 2000, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by James Stanfield

Breaking Surf, Bora-Bora, French Polynesia, 1997

Lacy breakers lap the coral reef that rings Bora-Bora, an ancient sunken volcano 165 miles (266 kilometers) northwest of Tahiti in French Polynesia's Society Islands. Surrounded by sugar-white beaches, an electric-blue lagoon, and some of the clearest water on the planet, Bora-Bora is home to hundreds of species of tropical fish. Not surprisingly, it's one of the world's top spots for divers.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "French Polynesia: Charting a New Course," June 1997, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by Jodi Cobb

Parisians celebrate the Great Revolution of 1789 in the Place de la Bastille on July 14th. In the center of the plaza stands the Colonne de Juillet, a monument to those who died during the 1830 and 1848 revolts.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The New, the Enduring Paris," July 1989, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by James L. Stanfield

Approximately 60 miles (100 kilometers) from Belize City, the almost perfectly circular Blue Hole is more than 1,000 feet (305 meters) across and some 400 feet (123 meters) deep.

The hole is the opening to what was a dry cave system during the Ice Age. When the ice melted and the sea level rose, the caves were flooded, creating what is now a magnet for intrepid divers. Today the Blue Hole is famed for its sponges, barracuda, corals, angelfish—and a school of sharks often seen patrolling the hole’s edge.

(Photograph published in "A Celebration of Reefs," August 2003, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by David Doubilet

A mated pair of red-and-green macaws soars above the forest in Bolivia's Madidi National Park. These long-lived birds mate for life, and couples spend nearly every minute together.

(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Madidi: Will Bolivia Drown Its New National Park?" March 2000, National Geographic magazine)

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Photograph by Joel Sartore

la verdad que las fotos estan salvajes...y tambien hay que reconocer el trabajo de esos fotografos.....

saludos

Sin duda Jose, el National Geographic reune a los mejores fotografos del mundo. Incluso en Nat Geo convocan concursos de fotografia que algunos talentosos cubanos han ganado. La fotografia es un arte.

Tu post me da la idea de subir una serie de fotos que rindan tributo a los logros tecnologicos de la fotografia y los fotografos.

National Geographic assistant editor Melville Bell Grosvenor made the first aerial color photograph when he took this shot of the Statue of Liberty by circling the monument in a Navy Airship ZM C2. The photograph, which was published in the September 1930 issue, led the National Geographic Society to adopt the Finlay process, then the newest method for producing color photographs.
Photograph by Melville B. Grosvenor

Inventor and early National Geographic Society President Alexander Graham Bell created this tetrahedral truss kite, designed with three-dimensional triangles that could support considerable weight, in order to study aerodynamic design before attempting to build airplanes. Together with new National Geographic Editor Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Bell steered the magazine in a new direction, favoring more photography and popular coverage.
Photograph by Bell Collection

Centuries of advances in chemistry and optics, including the invention of the camera obscura, set the stage for the world’s first photograph. In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took that photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras at his family’s country home. Niépce produced his photo—a view of a courtyard and outbuildings seen from the house’s upstairs window—by exposing a bitumen-coated plate in a camera obscura for several hours on his windowsill.
Photograph by Nicéphore Niépce