Top 10 most amazing places to travel in the world
Wind turbines surround a coal-fired power plant near Garzweiler in western Germany. Renewables now generate 27 percent of the country’s electricity, up from 9 percent a decade ago. Eventually they’ll crowd out coal—although Germany is switching off its nuclear plants first.
National Geographic Magazine is featuring this photo as an unfolded triple pages aperture of the Energy Revolution story in the November issue, dedicated to Climate Change.
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Number 2 Fall, Oulanka NP, Finland.
Fall, Oulanka NP, Finland. Photo by @peteressick. This is the time of year to photograph mist on rivers and lakes in your nature photos. The mist is caused when the air temperature becomes colder than the water temperature. I have found about a 20 degree difference makes for a lot of mist, and the larger the difference the more mist. The early mornings are obviously the best time to photograph, as the air temperature is at its coolest before the sun rises and "burns off" the mist.
Number 3 cuttlefish hovers above a field
cuttlefish hovers above a field of coral looking for the perfect place to lay her eggs in Challenger Bay on #GreatBarrierReef. Cuttlefish are the chameleons of the sea, changing colors to avoid predators and to communicate with others. When you see one cuttlefish look around, there is usually a second one nearby. This week I will be showcasing the Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef in the world.
Number 4 Koro Sea
Koro Sea, Fiji for @natgeo. Every day is a good day to celebrate the importance and beauty of our marine worlds! Oceans cover roughly 71 percent of the globe, and they are as important to us as they are vast. Our oceans are home to most of the life on our planet and play a central role in the world's natural systems, like regulating our climate and absorbing carbon dioxide. Their wealth is truly beyond comprehension. Please support organizations like WWF, IUCN, Balticsea2020, Oceana and MissionBlue to help protect our oceans. I took this photograph from a helicopter on assignment for @natgeo.
Number 5 A judge points out the winning dairy cow at the Minnesota State Fair
photo by @joelsartore A judge points out the winning dairy cow at the Minnesota State Fair. Growing up in the Heartland, it was events like this that eventually helped me get my start with National Geographic Magazine, proving there's a world of things to photograph in our own backyards. To hear more stories from the field, please come to my talk on Wednesday night at Nat Geo in Washington D.C. #natgeolive
Number 6 This time of year is for surf casters
Photo by @davidalanharvey | Outer Banks NC. This time of year is for surf casters who prefer feeling the water rush around them than fishing from a boat or pier where they would stand a better chance of catching a big fish. I was a little worried for this guy who took a pretty good wave hit here. If his chest waders filled with water he couldn't move or float. Yet he left the beach with a bucket of red drum. He knew what he was doing. The surge of the sea knows no equal. #obx #nagshead
Number 7 After almost 20 days on the mountain
After almost 20 days on the mountain and having to turn around a few hundred feet from the summit, @conrad_anker rappels through the lunar landscape of the Sharks Fin on Mount Meru.
Number 8 the Yucatan and Quintana Roo, Mexico
Number 9 Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, California
What is wrong with this picture? Why are all of these anchovies dead? Last week, we were photographing lunge-feeding humpback whales off Moss Landing in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, California. The next day we noticed a fishing seiner coming into port so overloaded that the aft deck was below water. When we arrived at the exact same location we had been the night before, there weren't any whales, sea lions, seals, or dolphins. We just saw thousands of birds feeding on hundreds of thousands of dead anchovies. The fishing boats had caught too much and dumped the excess into the ocean.
We began to ask questions and this is what we learned.
1) Without assessing the status of the anchovy population since 1995, the U.S. government has authorized the taking of over 55,000,000 (55 million) pounds of these forage fish every year.2) New scientific studies estimate this stock of anchovies has collapsed to less than 45 million pounds, the lowest levels in decades, yet, the remaining population gravitates towards shallow water in places like Monterey Bay giving the false perception that the fish are plentiful.
3) The fishermen are paid $100 per ton (5 cents a pound) for anchovies, sent overseas as bait and feed for farmed fish.
4) Then, I went online and watched how Monterey Bay anchovy fishermen filmed themselves (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL3sWyHwHRo) throwing seal bombs into their anchovy nets to scare away sea lions. No wonder there weren't any seals, sea lions or whales at the feeding grounds.
Does any of this make sense to you? With sea lion pups starving to death and a multi-million whale watching industry taking place right in your backyard, why are you fine and passionate people of Monterey Bay allowing this to happen? These forage fish are the foundation of an entire food chain. Please let your government hear your voices:
You can email your comments directly to the Pacific Fishery Management Council by November 4th at pfmc.comments@noaa.gov and write comments to Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDeta
Number 10 A Playground For Fock Climbers
The granite spires and domes of Colorado's #SouthPlatte are a playground for rock climbers. @cedarwright seen here on thin and technical holds up the colorful lichen covered rocks. In 2002 this area was ravaged by the Hayman Fire, one of the largest fires in recorded Colorado history burning nearly 140,000 acres and destroying 133 homes. The area still remains a great place for recreation, and much of the beauty still remains.
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