12 of National Geographic`s best photographs from 2016

  12 December 2016    Read: 3304
12 of National Geographic`s best photographs from 2016
Each year, National Geographic compiles its best photographs and presents them in a gallery for the world to admire. The 2016 selections were narrowed down to 52 out of a whopping 2,290,225 photographs that were captured by 91 photographers and featured in 107 stories. After going through the gallery , we selected 12 of our favorite images, which are waiting for you in the list below.

1. Julie, Antonio, and India Abram collect their daily allowance of bottled water from their local water resource site in Flint, Michigan.


via Wayne Lawrence / National Geographic

2. Yoina Mameria Nontsotega and her pet saddleback tamarin swim in the Yomibato River.


via Charlie Hamilton James / National Geographic

3. A Bornean orangutan climbs 100 feet into the canopy to grab some fruit.


via Tim Laman / National Geographic

4. The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park.


via Michael Nichols / National Geographic

5. Igor Voronkin, a Ukrainian coal miner, after surfacing from working in the Barentsburg mine.


via Evgenia Arbugaeva / National Geographic

6. A group of approximately 413,000 sandhill cranes wade in the Platte River as an evening storm approaches.


via Randy Olson / National Geographic

7. Space engineer Pablo de León tests a space suit in a Mars simulator at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.


via Phillip Toledano / National Geographic

8. A 16-year-old giant panda named Ye Ye getting some R&R in China’s Wolong Nature Reserve.


via Phillip Toledano / National Geographic

9. A mother grizzly bear and her cubs cause a "bear-jam" on Park Road in Alaska.


via Aaron Huey / National Geographic

10. Workers conduct eye exams to help reduce India`s blind population.


via Brent Stirton / National Geographic

11. A baby African white-bellied tree pangolin hitches a ride on its mother.


via Joel Sartore / National Geographic

12. A day-to-night composite taken in Yosemite National Park. The photographer took 1,036 shots over 26 hours to create this one image.


via Stephen Wilkes / National Geographic

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