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Recent stories in Photography: It Took 20,000 Shots to Capture This Extraordinary Moment in Nature; 16 Striking Photos From This Year’s Best Wildlife Photographers; Take a Closer Look at Bears, Birds, and Blooms From Nat Geo’s Photo Editors; How a Nat Geo Photographer Captured Iconic Photos of Big Cats; How a Nat Geo Photographer Captured the Effects of Extreme Heat in Pregnancy; Inside the Megawatt Effort to Mount New York’s Annual 9/11 'Tribute in Light'; 23 Classic Nat Geo Images, From a Flamboyance of Flamingos to the Northern Lights; America’s Majestic Wild Horses, Seen Through the Lenses of National Geographic Photographers; National Geographic’s Vintage Photos of a Young Dolly Parton; A Century of Photographing Lions in National Geographic; How a Nat Geo Photographer Captured the Total Solar Eclipse; 23 Incredible Pictures that Nat Geo's Photo Editors Loved This Month; See Stunning Images of the Total Solar Eclipse From Nat Geo Photographers; The Helium-Powered Ride That Changed Readers’ Perspective; 'The Entire World Is Glowing in Front of You': How Nat Geo Photographers Captured Pompeii; One Photographer’s Quest to Reveal Every Animal on Earth; Finding a Vanished City in the Most Unexpected Place; Revealing a rare look at China’s elusive giant panda; The photographer whose nature shots inspire pure awe; See the Hidden Ways Airplanes Navigate Contested Airspace; A National Geographic photographer walks across the roof of the world; Check out some of the remarkable pictures that wowed Nat Geo's photo editors this month; How a Nat Geo photographer learned to live on Mars; Never-before-seen images from Nat Geo's epic Sahara road trip; Gorgeous photos capture Spain’s annual round-up of a thousand wild horses