islamic art

The light gracefully filters through the complex central vault above the atrium of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.

squirrel of new jersey

Photographed during a snowstorm in New Jersey

crocodile of australia

Daintree River, Queensland, Australia

rodel church

The 15th-century church of Rodel on the Isle of Lewis, built for the warlike chiefs of the MacLeods, towers over the sea lochs of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. Nothing in early modern Britain, from its cities to its remotest corners, was more political than religion. The church in every parish—nearly always the most imposing building—was as much a symbol of worldly control as a shrine to God.

gray wolf of washington

A gray wolf rests at Wolf Haven International, a wolf sanctuary in Washington State.

lightning in iran

After three years I went to visit my family in Iran. We traveled to the city of Mahmood Abad in the north of Iran and had the most amazing time together. One night as I was walking on the shore of the Caspian Sea with my sister, I saw distant lightning. I ran to the hotel, grabbed my camera and tripod, and came back. I took many long exposures, but it was only in the second shot that I captured the biggest, most beautiful, and the last lightning of that night.

tigers of india

Meet Smasher—the male in the background. That's the name Steve Winter gave this youngster, cooling off in a watering hole in Bandhavgarh National Park, after he slapped the automated camera trap until it stopped clicking. Both tigers are thought to have killed people, and Smasher is now in captivity.

lava spews

animal lover

An animal lover from Medan gives food to dogs at the abandoned village of Mardinding, in Karo district, Indonesia's North Sumatra province,following the eruption of Mount Sinabung volcano. Indonesia has ordered the evacuation of 15,000 residents near the active volcano.

north samatra indonesia

A family chats with their neighbor as they leave their house to temporary shelter, with Mount Sinabung spewing ash in the background as seen from Tiga Pancur village in Karo district, Indonesia's North Sumatra province.

geophysics and volcanology

People observe an eruption at the South East Crater of Mt. Etna from the monitoring station of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology at the Schiena dell'Asino, near Catania, in Sicily, southern Italy.

balochistan

balochistan

baloch culture