photo report

The most spectacular photos of the month. Every day the editors of National Geographic receive thousands of photos from photographers around the world. And only the best of the best gets the honor to get on the pages of this edition of the famous.

The author of these images was denied entry to the country. These pictures were taken by photographer Eric Lafforgue during his last visit to the closed country. The latter — not in the sense most recent, and in the sense that now the entry into this country closed to him …

Incredible portraits of wild animals. A sculptor from Germany jürgen LINGL-Rebetez (Jürgen Lingl-Rebetez) began as a painter, but eventually began to work with wood and became a real master of wood. His brutal work done with a chainsaw, both harsh and filled with ease and dynamics: it seems that the …

Here reigns the sinister atmosphere. The village Holmavik in the North-West of Iceland is notable for the Museum of Icelandic sorcery and black magic. In the old days, Icelanders relied on black magic to solve their problems, whether it be changing weather conditions, obtaining wealth, conquest, love or deliverance from …

Beautiful without tons of “plaster”. “Miss universe” contest, which involved not skinny models and plastic dolls, and quite a common people. However, even within the photoset No makeup, these girls are beautiful — they announced it to the whole world and the whole world will believe them. We’ll show you …

Stylish and functional. GASPARBONTA Studio designed the interior for men in Budapest, Hungary. The customer chose a perfect living space from many in the real estate market. His main requirements were a Central location, the small size and compact layout. This apartment of 62 square meters to set him up …

In the kitchen of every country there is a dish which visiting tourists seem strange. Came to explore expanses of Russia, foreigners still can’t understand how you can have layers of salted herring with boiled vegetables, jelly-like mixture of beef and chicken floating in kefir or kvass cucumbers and sausage. …

The world is still a lot unknown. For many years, scientists puzzled by the study of the mysteries of our world, ranging from the crazy water flows in the ocean depths and ending with where did the oceans themselves. 10. The secret of moving rocks in Death Valley From mid-1940-ies …

The canal Saint-Martin keeps many secrets. The authorities of Paris decided to drain and clean the city’s canal Saint-Martin for the first time in 15 years. During the works it was discovered incredible finds at the bottom of the channel lay old radios, truck shop, lots of bikes, scooters and …

Nicolas Bruno showed the horror of nightmares. Days photographer Nicolas Bruno are the same as most of us. But not the night. 22-year-old man suffering from sleep paralysis, and for 7 years he was plagued by terrible nightmares, from which he cannot get rid of. The horror of the palsy …