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At 10-times magnification, sand from Alaska's Point Spencer resembles semiprecious stones.
science

These Tiny Jewels Come From One of Alaska's Most Unusual Beaches

This microscopic treasure was collected from a remote site near the Arctic Circle.
Gemma Tarlach November 15, 2022
With ice as the medium, wind, water, and falling objects create art on a frozen lake in Slovenia.
science

How Water, Wind, and Chance Sculpted an Icy Work of Art

Lake stars, ice rings, and other natural phenomena brought magic to a small Slovenian lake.
Gemma Tarlach November 10, 2022
Store #1837 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
art

The Photographer Capturing the South From Waffle House Booths

Micah Cash’s journey to 125 diners was fueled by burnt coffee, scrambled eggs, and Southern hospitality.
Sam Lin-Sommer September 14, 2022
A levee divides wetlands and a salt pond, colored vibrant red by halobacteria, in San Francisco's South Bay.
birds

Vivid Images Capture A Stunning Shift in San Francisco's Salty South Bay

An ambitious wetlands restoration project attempts to balance a return to the area's ecological past and the realities of a changing future.
Skylar Knight August 29, 2022
Early Argus model camera - Argus A
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Argus Museum

One of the camera company's former manufacturing buildings is now a museum dedicated to its history.
New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery

A building that was once a general store, a speakeasy, and a newspaper office now holds a small gallery filled with New Orleans photography.
Cowboy Jordan Miller rides in the Black Cowboy Association’s 45th annual parade, held in 2019 in Oakland.
culture

Inside America's Premier Black Rodeo, A Celebration of Cowboy Culture

A photographer captures perseverance and pride over a decade of the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo.
Gemma Tarlach June 28, 2022
Dave Honan captured this image of Icelandair's "Hekla Aurora" paint scheme, which pays homage to the northern lights.
collections

Planespotting With the ‘Avgeeks’

For most people, planes are a necessary hassle, but for aviation enthusiasts they’re so much more. 
Justin Franz April 12, 2022
Heavy rains and wind turned the usually featureless Salar de Uyuni salt flats into a riot of color in late January 2022.
floods

Wild Weather Has Turned Bolivia's Salt Flats Into a Work of Art

A satellite captures the stunning effects of heavy rain and high winds on a landscape that—coincidentally—is used to calibrate satellites.
Gemma Tarlach March 10, 2022
The creative costumes might be made of assortments of household or farm trash such as old feed bags, lampshades, bottle caps, and spent shotgun shells.
festivals

A Short Drive From New Orleans, Cajun Mardi Gras Is a Different Animal

Colorful costumes and alcohol, sure, but also chasing chickens.
Fletcher Moore March 4, 2022
Papier-mâché masks are the centerpiece of Carnival in Guinea-Bissau.
festivals

Carnival in Guinea-Bissau Represents Resistance and Possibility

In the small West African Nation, the festival is history.
Ashawnta Jackson March 3, 2022
In the 1950s, Carnival was a chance for Rio to display its growth and artistic flair.
festivals

Take a Parade Down Memory Lane to Rio's 1953 Carnival

Images of a city and culture showing itself off to the world.
Ashawnta Jackson March 2, 2022
The Diablada dance pits the Archangel Saint Michael, in the uniform of the Roman legions, against the servants of the devil.
music

Bolivia's Dance of the Devils Is a Party and a Battle Between Good and Evil

Heaven and hell, music and dance at the Carnaval de Oruro.
Matthew Taub February 28, 2022
A Kurent and the devil behind him received handkerchiefs at homes they visited in the village of Zabovci.
unesco

The Supernatural Sheep of Slovenia's Door-to-Door Carnival

To bring spring, hundreds of hirsute revelers roam the country's villages.
Matthew Taub February 24, 2022
Chicken buses are old American school buses fixed up and turned into public transportation in Central America. Here, they wait for passengers in Antigua, Guatemala.
art

Guatemala's Tricked-Out 'Chicken Buses' Have Lots of Stories to Tell

These old American school buses are a fixture of daily life across Central America.
Megan Janetsky February 4, 2022
Gordon Parks captured this image of protest on the streets of Harlem in 1963. It is among 222 pictures by the famed Black photographer recently acquired by Yale University.
libraries

A New Home for Hundreds of Photographs by the Legendary Gordon Parks

Yale has acquired some of the Black photographer’s best-known images.
April White February 2, 2022
The dramatic colors and patterns of salt evaporation ponds on the Great Salt Lake are the result of a combination of salinity levels, wind, currents, and activity of brine shrimp, algae, and bacteria.
salt

Salt-Loving Microbes Make Vivid, Massive Abstract Art

For the latest addition to his stunning salt production series, photographer Tom Hegen ventured to Utah’s Great Salt Lake.
Gemma Tarlach February 2, 2022
Silky sharks just below the surface near Darwin Island.
islands

Marine Life in the Galápagos Gets a New Protected 'Ocean Highway'

More room to roam for the islands' unique fauna.
Winnie Lee January 31, 2022