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1、Life in Color:Orange,A balance of playful yellow and passionate red,orange commands attention without overwhelming.This often flamboyant color brings to mind citrus and sunsets,fall leaves,and jack-o-lanterns.Orange has even been found to stimulate appetite and creativity in humans.,Giraffe Silhouet
2、tesHere,three giraffes in Botswanas Okavango Delta stretch their necks above the horizon before a glowing orange sky.,Sunset SpursSunset casts a spurred boot in silhouette in Santa Fe,New Mexico.Such icons of the Old West still have a proud place in everyday New Mexican life.,Lake Michigan SunsetAn
3、orange-tinged sunset provides the backdrop for a sailboat on Lake Michigan.This 321-mile-long(517-kilometer-long)body of water is the only Great Lake located entirely within the United States.,Turkish Wheat FieldKnobby haystacks dot a wheat field in Malazgirt,Turkey,as sunset bathes two workers in h
4、azy orange light.,Insulation FibersMolten glass is turned into insulation at the Johns-Manville Corporation in Berlin,New Jersey.The orange-hot fluid is forced through holes in a palladium sheet to form long,thin fibers.,Orange TulipsVibrant tulips brighten the Samuels Bulb Garden at St.Louiss Misso
5、uri Botanical Garden.Established in 1859,the garden is an internationally recognized center for botanical research and a year-round urban oasis for flower fans.,Dingo FenceOrange sunset colors the sand around Australias famed dingo fence,a 3,355-mile(5,400-kilometer)barrier that crosses the countrys
6、 desert interior and separates cattle and sheep from predatory wild dogs.,Beehive HutsThe dusty-orange,beehive-shaped huts of Tall Mardkh,Syria,were built some 200 years ago by an ancient method which has since been lost.The shape and materials of these mud-brick dwellings help them remain cool in s
7、ummer and warm in winter.,Flock in FlightBirds fill an orange sky over Germanys Wattenmeer National Park.This coastal wetland,covered by the sea at high tide,is home to some 3,200 different animals and a popular stopover for many migratory birds.,Crowded Fish PondScores of orange koi fish crowd a po
8、nd in Oahu,Hawaii.Prized by collectors,koi are an ornamental variety of freshwater carp originally raised in Japan.,Orange CoralA tubastraea coral waves its wispy,orange tentacles near Sangeang Island,Indonesia.Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor,but they support one out of ev
9、ery four marine creatures.,Grand CanyonThe pastel-orange of the Grand Canyons sandstone walls dominates the view from the vantage known as SB Point.The canyons rock layers display a geological history some two billion years old.,ScorpionScorpians have survived for hundreds of millions of years by be
10、ing extremely adaptable.Some,like this orange-colored species in the Grand Canyon,dwell in desert climes,while others inhabit the tropics,temperate forests,and even Himalayan high peaks.,Shenandoah MoonThe moon rises over Big Meadows on an autumn evening in Virginias Shenandoah National Park.Some 45
11、0 families in the Blue Ridge Mountains were relocated when the park was created in the 1930s.,Setting SunA burning orange sun sets behind a fringe of pampas grass in Japan.Japans nickname,The Land of the Rising Sun,is derived from the Chinese ideograph meaning place of the suns origin.,Orange Nudibr
12、anchThis toxic orange Godiva nudibranch was photographed in the Raja Ampat islands,Papua,Indonesia.There are over 3,000 known species of these colorful sea slug relatives,and new ones are discovered nearly every day.,Sun ConuresTwo brightly colored sun conures relax on a branch at the Bramble Park Z
13、oo in Watertown,South Dakota.These South American parakeets are common in captivity,but wild populations have crashed due to unregulated trapping.,Tarantula HairAn extreme close-up shows the delicate hair of an orange baboon tarantula,a resident of the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls,South Dakota.Th
14、is large,aggressive species is native to Africa.,Dust Storm,SydneyThe dust storm that hit Sydney on 23 September 2009 was hopefully a once in a lifetime event and not a sign of things to come in this time of climate change.This image,captured at 6:30,shows not only the incredible colours but the den
15、sity of the dust.Fortunately the camera(and photographer)survived,despite being covered in fine red dust.Estimates are that over 1000 tonnes of dust were dumped on Sydney,after having traveled over 1000 kilometers from Broken Hill.,Lightning,Superstition MountainsA thunderstorm strikes over the foot
16、hills of the Superstition Mountains in central Arizona.,Bonneville Salt Flats at Night,UtahThe electric blush of Salt Lake City,more than a hundred miles(160 kilometers)away,brushes the horizon over Utahs Bonneville Salt Flats.,Mt.Kilauea Eruption at Night,HawaiiLava from Mt Kilaeau flowed down the
17、slopes via lava tubes into the ocean and the resulting violent explosions generated such large steam columns as to pull up waterspouts from the sea.This spectacular display continued into the night and also called down lightning from the sky.,Giraffes at Sunset,Masai Mara Park,KenyaAfter a safari in
18、 the Masai Mara Park we were racing back to our camp trying to get home before sunset.No one is allowed out in the park after dark.When I saw this photo op I had to convince our driver to stop just for a second so I could take this one picture.It was worth the risk of a fine for being out after suns
19、et but fortunately we made it back in time.,Chicago City LightsChicago at night burns bright under blankets of clouds.Much of the glow escapes from streetlamps,including clear,Victorian-style lamps good for creating atmosphere but poor for harnessing todays extra-bright bulbs.,Owachomo Bridge at Nig
20、ht,UtahA starry night gleams above Owachomo Bridge in Utahs Natural Bridges National Monumentnamed the first Dark Sky Park by the International Dark-Sky Association(IDA).Here you see something forgotten,says ranger Scott Ryan,and reconnect with the sky.,Fungus on a Fly,Location Unknown,2000Looking l
21、ike delicate seeds,the spiky spores of a tiny parasitic fungus produce fruit on the back of a fly.These fungi are found throughout the world but will only live on certain insects.,Desert at Dawn,Saudi Arabia,2003A lone man walks over sand dunes in the Saudi Arabian desert.This oil-rich kingdom on th
22、e Arabia Peninsula covers some 770,000 square miles(2 million square kilometers),more than 98 percent of which is desert.,Desert Wildlife,Atacama Desert,Chile,2003 Birds perch on a cactus as a gray fox warily stands below in Chiles Atacama Desert.Rain rarely falls on the Atacamas coastline,but dense
23、 fog known as camanchaca is abundant.The fog nourishes plant communities from cactuses to ferns.,Pines and Palm Trees,Big Cypress National Preserve,Florida,1996 Sunset bathes Floridas Big Cypress National Preserve in an orange glow.The preserve,720,000 acres(291,375 hectares)of primordial swamp on F
24、loridas southwest coast,is home to the elusive Florida panther and an impressive diversity of birds,among other unique fauna and flora.But human development in and around the area threatens to send this fragile ecosystem into a tailspin.,Waterfowl,Zambezi River,1997 Silhouetted by salmon skies at su
25、nset,a pair of waterfowl alights on a tree limb near the Zambezi River.Often called the lifeline of southern Africa,the Zambezi cuts a 2,200-mile(3,540-kilometer)course east from Zambia to the Indian Ocean,sustaining elephants,hippos,crocodiles,hundreds of species of birdsand tens of millions of peo
26、plealong the way.,Twilight Over Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument,Utah,1997 Crimson twilight gives a Martian air to Utahs Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.With just one maintained trail in an area the size of Delaware,this monument is decidedly big and wild.Wrote one observer:Al
27、most everywhere,the benchlands lay sliced with canyonsdeep wounds that millions of years of flowing water have carved into a quarter billion years worth of multicolored sandstone deposits.,Sand Dunes,The Dalles,Oregon,2001In a curious juncture,a wrinkled span of desert dunes pours into the Columbia
28、River Gorge in The Dalles,Oregon.Eons of erosion by the mighty Columbia River carved this dramatic 80-mile-long(130-kilometer-long)gorge into the Cascade Range.Declared the nations first National Scenic Area in 1986,the area is known for its 4,000-foot(1,220-meter)canyon walls,lush rain forest,and d
29、ozens of waterfalls.,Twilight on Vancouver Island,Canada,2003On Vancouver Island a soaked beach reflects a contemplative evening ride.At 12,079 square miles(31,285 square kilometers),Vancouver Island is the largest island on North Americas Pacific Coast.Separated from mainland Canada by several stra
30、its,the island is actually the peak of a sunken mountain range.,Beaufort Sea,Yukon Territory,Canada,1999 Sunset over the Beaufort Sea plunges Canadas Yukon Territory into a crimson haze.More than 313,000 tourists make summer pilgrimages to the territory,one of North Americas last great wildernesses.
31、Today tourism booms there,drawing adventurers to the frontiers glaciated peaks,untouched wilderness,and abundant wildflowers and wildlife.,Snake Skeleton,Belize,2000No longer slithering,a snake skeleton lies silent in Belizes Chiquibul Cave system.A labyrinthine series of limestone caves carved by r
32、ainwater and the subterranean Chiquibul River,the cave system in western Belize is home to thousands of intact skeletons dating back 10,000 years or more.,Big Sur Firemen,California,2000Firemen with lighted helmets use controlled fires to clear brush during a wildfire in Californias Santa Lucia Rang
33、e.Forest firesman-made and naturalare so common here that Big Sur naturalist John Smiley calls them another type of weather.,Red Rock Beach,Dominica,1996Vacationers barely catch a glimpse of the sea through rocks on Red Rock Beach on Pointe Baptiste in Dominica.Mountainous,densely forested,and popul
34、ated by waterfalls and exotic birds,much of Dominica is protected as national wilderness.,Lake Sunrise,Arkansas,1994Sunlight 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
35、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.,Bartolome Island,Ecuador,1986Pinnacle Rock looms under a brooding sky off the Galpagos Bartolome Island.The islands most famo
36、us 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 form
37、ed into this towering monument.,Vanu Levu Island,Fiji,1993 Evening calm ushers a fishing boat past the distant shores of Vanua Levu island,one of 300-plus Fijian islands.,Steel Works,Volgograd,Russia,1992The Red October Steel Works stands alongside the Volga Matushka,or Mother Volga.Although not muc
38、h trash can be seen in the water or along the shore,the Volga River is polluted by agrochemicals from farms and heavy metals from the factories that line its banks.,Aerial View of Gizas Pyramids From any angle,Gizas pyramids inspire awe.Recently,scientists have learned much about the communities of
39、workers who built these massive monuments.,Burwell Big Rodeo,Nebraska,1996 Spectators at the Big Rodeo in Burwell,Nebraska are silhouetted against roiling sunset-tinged clouds.Bull riding and a wild horse race are big draws at the Big Rodeo.Although participants risk injury,its not enough to make so
40、me Nebraska cowboys hang up their spurs.When asked why he keeps riding at the Big Rodeo,one contestant said,The adrenaline.And to see if you can conquer the beast.,Desert Sunset,Giza,Egypt,1981 Splendor of the past endures in an Egyptian pyramid.Camels have provided desert transport in parts of Afri
41、ca and Asia since ancient times.,MeerkatA cheeky meerkat keeps watch over the house.This one kept falling asleep on the job.,Young adult lions lying down,AustraliaTwelve-year-old male lion brothers Tonyi,left,and Tombo lie with each other at Werribee Open Range Zoo,30 kilometers(19 miles)west of Mel
42、bourne,Australia,in September 2008.Werribee Open Range Zoo occupies 225 hectares(556 acres)of land,which allows visitors in safari buses to get closer to animals.The photographs were taken by a camera in a hide and triggered remotely.,Hot air balloons above the Serengeti,TanzaniaWhile riding in the
43、tracking car,following commercial hot-air balloons filled with paid riders in the Serengeti(Tanzania),we found that we didnt appear to be the only ones keeping an eye on the sky.This female lion traveled slowly in front of us for quite some distance,but finally turned and glared back at us,then with
44、in a few seconds,totally disappeared into the nearby brush.,Aurora Borealis,Manitoba CanadaThe Aurora Borealis as seen from the sub-arctic tundra nightscape.Wapusk National Park,Manitoba,Canada.,Football Stadium at Sunset,ColoradoAn amazing view of the sun setting behind the Flatirons of the Rocky M
45、ountain front range in Boulder CO.I caught this spectacular fireshow on the roof of the stadium,using five different exposures in a tone mapping technique similar to the one Ansel Adams developed to capture scenes with high dynamic range.,Stallions Fighting,South DakotaTwo stallions fight at a wild
46、horse conservation center in South Dakota.Its an equine echo of an ongoing struggle across the western United States,where mustangs compete for space with ranching and energy development.,Walking Stick Bug,Cincinnati,Ohio,1993A female Macleays specter stick insect pauses on a branch at the Cincinnat
47、i Zoo.Indigenous to Australia,these large,well-defended arthropods are covered in tiny spikes and can reach 6 inches(15 centimeters)in length.,Colosseum at night,ItalyI got this shot while traveling through Italy in December.My wife spotted the puddles in the ground and suggested they would make a g
48、reat reflection.,Prehistoric Human Skull,Qafzeh,Israel,2001This 100,000-year-old skull was found in a cave in Qafzeh,Israel,along with other fossils,including a horse tooth and burned flints.Cutting-edge techniques were used to date the fossilsrevealing that modern humans left Africa much earlier th
49、an had been thought,even coexisting with Neanderthals,once believed to be our ancestors.,Jumbo Squid,Atlantic Ocean,2004With an angry eye and a cloud of ink,a jumbo squid(Dosidicus gigas)flees from a diver.If camouflage fails,squid use ink as a backup defense.Mexican fishermen call the aggressive cr
50、eatures diablos rojosred devils.They often spew water from their funnels when hauled aboard.,Silhouette of Westminster Abbey,London,England,2000 The spires of Westminster Abbey cut dramatic shapes into a blushing twilight sky.The famous London church began as a Benedictine monastery enlarged by King
