Cherry Trees and Walkway, Japan

This picture was taken in Iwakuni, Japan at the Kintai Bridge. The Cherry Blossom (Sakura) festival had just ended and that is when I decid...

African Lion Mother and Cub, Tanzania

Everything about this photographic moment is tender. The light, the gesture, the color are perfect. But there is also a small detail that...

Victoria Falls, Zambia

In situations that are active and thrilling, surprisingly quiet moments can take place. These moments feel even more powerful because of ...

Ballerina, Cuba

Some of the best moments happen behind the scenes, before or after the main event. These are the times when people are unguarded because ...

Festival of Colors

Clouds of neon-colored powder enveloped villages across northern India last week as the spring  Holi Festival  began, coating people in a...

Training Day

A lone dog looks on as  kushti  wrestlers attend a daily training session at a club in  Lahore, Pakistan (map) , on February 26. Also kno...

Driver Deluged

A man rescues a woman trapped by floodwaters from her car in a suburb of Athens, Greece, on February 22, when the capital city suffered i...

Pictures We Love February

Do Pet the Dinos A young audience reacts with varying amounts of credulity to a carnivorous dinosaur on the prowl in London on Febru...