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 | HOTOGRAPH BY ARTURO RODRÍGUEZ
| | An astronaut on a moonscape? No, a specialist collecting glowing lava on a pitchfork.
This image is on the cover of Nat Geo’s Year in Pictures issue. In all, 132 photographers visited 60 countries and submitted 2,238,899 images to document the multifaceted world we live in. Our photo editors selected 118 of their favorites for consideration.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY JEN GUYTON | | Tough talk: A hyena nicknamed Palazzo submissively lays her ears back as the clan’s dominant female towers over her and Palazzo’s pup. Nat Geo Explorer Jen Guyton captured this tense exchange using an infrared camera while on the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY RENAN OZTURK | | Peekaboo with the icebergs: That’s how photographer Renan Ozturk described launching a camera drone from the boat the Polar Sun, on a journey through a melting Arctic. This image was taken from Disko Bay, Greenland. See the photographers of the year.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY WAYNE LAWRENCE | | | In the surf: Pontsho Name was one of the people Wayne Lawrence photographed from Durban, South Africa. “Capturing someone’s true essence is the most difficult thing about portrait photography, and I fail most times,” he said. “My approach is to always gauge a person’s energy and try to match it.” See more of the year’s best. | | | |
| PHOTO QUIZ: THE SECRET INGREDIENT | |
 | PHOTOGRAPH BY MAYNARD OWEN WILLIAMS
| | A ‘starchy’ photo: This 1927 photograph, featuring a copy of Nat Geo, used a primitive way of creating a color photo. The autochrome consisted of a glass plate covered with a thin wash of starch grains dyed red, green, and blue. The soft, dyed colors made the photos look like a painting. Which vegetable’s starch was the key ingredient in autochromes? Click here to find the answer.
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 | PHOTO COMPOSITE BY MARK THIESSEN
| | Thinking big: Nat Geo Explorer Jasper Doest needed to stealthily photograph elephants, but off-the-shelf trail cameras were being “smashed and tusked” to pieces. Together, he and Nat Geo’s photo engineer Tom O’Brien designed high-tech camera traps to withstand skittish and powerful forest elephants. The result? Roughly 1,100 pounds of equipment (pictured above) shipped from Washington to Gabon so Doest could complete the assignment. See how it went.
Related: The real-life MacGyver in Nat Geo’s basement
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Today's Soundtrack: New Year's Resolution, by Otis Redding & Carla Thomas
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