Top Shot: Creeping Through
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
Your Shot photographer Lazar Ovidiu photographed this "perfect morning" of the Dolomites mountains in Italy. Photograph by Lazar Ovidiu
Top Shot: Whistle While We Work
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
Your Shot photographer Thirawatana Phaisalratana photographed this scene as farmers carry rice seedlings Sakon Nakhon, Thailand. Photograph by Thirawatana Phaisalratana
Top Shot: On to Greener Pastures
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
"In the early morning the buffaloes are brought out of the barn," writes Your Shot photographer Seyit Konyali. "The cowboy takes them to the most beautiful pastures. There are between 600 and 1000 buffalo in the herd. In the evening, buffalos return home. This small lake is refreshing for them." Photograph by Seyit Konyali
Top Shot: Monkeying Around with Golden Hour
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
Your Shot photographer Hiren Kadikar documented this dazzling moment of monkeys while she was on a walk during golden hour. Photograph by Hiren Kadikar
Top Shot: A Thousand Waterfalls
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
"I’m back in Manila after an epic six-day road trip around East Java," writes Your Shot photographer Sherwin Magsino. "Sharing one of my favorite shots from the trip, the stunning Tumpak Sewu, which means 'a thousand waterfalls.' I sometimes get asked about my favorite place I've been to. This would have to be right up there on my list!" Photograph by Sherwin Magsino
Top Shot: Golden Mirror
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
Your Shot photographer Q-lieb In captured this golden frames on the shores of Arambol, India as a dog walked on the shoreline. Photograph by Q-lieb In
Top Shot: Today's Catch
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
"The vulture was trekking the hyena while it was running away with its catch. The hyena stopped all of a sudden and the vulture flew over it. The proud hyena must be thinking 'I got you there!'" Photograph by Chan Onn Fong
Top Shot: Upon Reflection...
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
Your Shot photographer Kent Mok used a reflection in Hong Kong to document this quiet moment in the city. Photograph by Kent Mok
Top Shot: Portrait of a Puffin
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
"Hiking around the cliffs of Mykines in The Faroe Islands, I spotted a puffin sitting on the edge of the rocks below watching the waves come crashing in," writes Your Shot photographer Paul Boomsma. Photograph by Paul Boomsma
Your Story: Albina Kosenko
In our Your Story feature, we ask our members about what inspires their photography, the processes they use to make images, and the stories behind their pictures.
Q. What's the story behind this photo?
A. A friend of mine was expecting a baby and I wanted to capture that intimate moment for my friend and her husband.
Q. How was this image made?
A. We were in a small room, and I had a 50 mm lens, but wanted to make a wider shot. That’s when I turned to the mirror on the wall. The mirror had some angles that caught light and reflections - that is what actually resulted in that dreamy look.
Q. Why do you take pictures?
A. I enjoy the moment of creation. Besides, photography helps me convey values I believe in: love, freedom, beauty.
Q. What was the first photo you took? Or the first photo you took that was meaningful to you?
A. My first photo was probably in my childhood, my dad had a film camera and he must have asked me to take a photo of him and mom. I do not remember that well though. My first meaningful photo was 3 years ago, it was this one. I made it during studies at a photo school, and around this time it stroke me that a beautiful photo is not necessarily a photo of something beautiful, but a photo that is meaningful and conveys an idea. I am still fond of this shot, to me it’s a story of how hectic our life is and how rarely we take a moment to enjoy what we have.
Q. How would you describe your photographic style?
A. I can’t put a name on it, not sure such a style has a name. I’m fond of “true” stories. I like it when a true moment, emotion or state of mind is conveyed through a photo.
Q. What do you want to say with your images?
A. There’s no single message. But if I were to name one thing that I believe in (and it is often my topic) - it is the importance of love in our life. Love to your other significant one, to your kids, to yourself (this one is so often forgotten and overlooked). Treasure what you have.
Q. Have you been inspired by any photographers in the Your Shot community?
A. I really love what Your Shot Photographer Tatiana Vasilyeva is doing. She has some great shots that make me stop and think, like this image. Isn’t that what true art is supposed to do? Tatyana’s shots have powerful composition and great light. Another thing that fascinates me in Tanya’s work is that she does almost no editing. All editing is on her phone. That style resonates with my ideas of the “true” moment.
Q. Whose photography has influenced you the most?
A. Saul Leiter, Annie Leibovitz’s early works for Rolling Stone, Elliott Erwitt’s humor, and Paolo Roversi’s color.
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Top Shot: Out of the Dust
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
"All 5 species of rhinos are either critically endangered, vulnerable or threatened. When the world’s last male white rhino died, something of mankind died with it too," writes Your Shot photographer Shobha Gopinath. "For years they have been hunted for the supposed medicinal value of their horn. When will man learn to share this planet with our fellow creatures? This image of the baby rhino with its mother [in Cape Town, South Africa] standing still in the midst of a swirling sandstorm seemed like a perfect metaphor of their vulnerability." Photograph by Shobha Gopinath
Top Shot: Waking from a Bear Nap
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
"A polar bear wakes and stretches from an afternoon nap on the ice sheet near Svalbard before beginning its search for food," writes Your Shot photographer Jim Guerard. Photograph by Jim Guerard
Top Shot: In a Fog
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
"Every summer we get to experience this incredible phenomenon of low summer fog rolling over the hills into the city," writes Your Shot photographer Tanmay Sapkal. "When hot inland temperatures create a low-pressure zone over Northern California's Central Valley, hot inland air rises and the heavier cold ocean air rushes in to replace it. This flow from the high to the low-pressure zone pulls the fog through the Golden Gate passage and into the Bay." Photograph by Tanmay Sapkal
Top Shot: Good Morning, El Capitan
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
"It was a foggy morning and at the time we were about to give up, the sunlight came for a very short time to show this beautiful view of El Capitan in Yosemite," writes Your Shot photographer Dzung Tran. Photograph by Dzung Tran
Top Shot: Suspended in Flight
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
Your Shot photographer Arindam Saha documented this pair of baya weavers frozen in action near a nest. The baya weavers are known for their bulbous nests in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Photograph by Arindam Saha
Top Shot: Facing the Giant
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
Your Shot photographer Jasper Ivan Iturriaga made this photograph while facing the Skógafoss waterfall in Skógar, Iceland. He writes, "This waterfall is one of my favorite waterfalls in the country." Photograph by Jasper Ivan Iturriaga
Top Shot: Total Eclipse of the Jelly
Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos selected by the Your Shot editors. The photo our community has voted as their favorite is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account. Click here to vote for tomorrow’s Top Shot.
Your Shot photographer Hannah Mitchell photographed this large Haeckel's Jellyfish as it floated across the sun-rays shining through the water's surface near Adelaide, Australia. Photograph by Hannah Mitchell
