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Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba inside the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Mecca after morning prayers, before the start of this year’s hajj pilgrimage November 24, 2009. (REUTERS/Caren Firouz)
(via Eid al-Adha and the Hajj, 2009 - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
While I was visiting the Mayan Riviera recently, one day I was swimming very close to the shore and had been doing it for 20 minutes, I noticed that I had a remora underneath my belly and I tried to get rid of it, but wouldn’t go away, I thought that at any moment it would attach to me so I panic (no idea why) and I had to get out of the water, now that I look back it’s funny, but not so funny while I was there.
So around April-May you can swim along with whale sharks at Holbox Island and Isla Mujeres (off the Yucatan coast near Cancun where the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea merge) with many remoras.
Alexander Safonov, photographer
Northern light
Hörður B. Karlsson, photographer
From the series Lost Tribes of the Green Sahara
Undaunted by a sandstorm, Wodaabe men promenade at a Niger festival of herding tribes. Like the Wodaabe, Gobero’s last known inhabitants may have been keepers of livestock.
Mike Hetter, photographer
Tim Laman, photographer
Ragnar Axelsson, photographer
Children study in a yard Friday with scrap collected for recycling, in Hyderabad, India, Friday. Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children’s rights, 1 billion children are still deprived of food, shelter or clean water, and nearly 200 million are chronically malnourished, UNICEF said Thursday.
From the series Walking on Thin Ice
For several months each year Baikal - the world’s largest body of fresh water, more voluminous than all the North American Great Lakes combined - freezes so solidly that locals drive their cars and lorries over it to reach towns that are only accessible by boats in summer. Baikal, near Russia’s border with Mongolia.
Justin Jin, photographer
