NGM photo of the month

PHOTOGRAPHER: Thomas Cooper
Skeletal Remains

Late afternoon sun silhouettes dead acacia trees against a backdrop of sand dunes. In Namibia's Namib-Naukluft Park on southern Africa's west coast, the dunes rise as high as a thousand feet (300 meters) from the desert floor.

From Visions of Earth, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC,
November 2006

i cannot believe the background was real... i thought it was photoshop-ed in but it is actually real sand dunes~ my god i'm really a mountain tortoise...

and then there is a sights and sounds feature article, on NGM too, about leopard seals!!! i remember that day watch "Eight and Below" with mel got feature one very huge and fierce leopard seal that killed one of the dogs )= so i got curious and went to watch it while listening to maths lecture which is damn slow and boring..... muahahaha~