10 of the best: nature photographs.

guardian wildlife photos:

A group of banteng graze in the eastern plains of the
Mondulkiri protected forest of Cambodia. In the past 50 years the species of wild cattle has declined by more than 80%. Over 5,000 banteng are estimated to live in the Mondulkiri forest. They are highly prized by hunters and remain one of the 10 most endangered species in Cambodia.
Photograph: Fletcher & Baylis/FA/WWF




A rhino mother and calf graze at Pobitora wildlife sanctuary in Assam, India.
Photograph: Biju Boro/AFP/Getty Images




An asiatic lioness (Panthera leo persica) with her cubs in the Gir Interpretation Zone, also known as Devalia safari park, in the Gir forest of Gujarat, India. The Asiatic lion population, found in its only habitat in the world – Gir – is rising, according to a recent census. Photo: Matthias Graben/Corbis




A sambar deer cools off in a pond at the Van Vihar national park in Bhopal, India. Forest officials have made special arrangements for the animals at the park to get respite from the scorching heat as the temprature of the city soared to 43C. Photograph: Sanjeev Gupta/EPA

I've started reading the Denver Post, a newspaper in a city not all that far from us who live in Albuquerque. Denver is a city of interest to me, that I don't know well at all. Have been there and crossing the rest of the state a couple of times, just passing through. So - a new probably source of nature photos.


Colorado offers a paradise for summer recreation. Here, Danica Baker rides singletrack through lupine and other wildflowers not far from downtown Crested Butte. (Courtesy of Trent Bona)

I happen to love lupine.

Hello - just curious about all the lovely pictures

What a darling. A possum? or?

The winter sun falls on Iceland’s Goðafoss, or Waterfall of the Gods.

“Ice on Lake Baikal is a very interesting phenomenon,” writes Your Shot member Alexey Trofimov. “Ice ridges, cracks, tears, hugging. All this creates unique and fantastic stories.” Trofimov spends a few months a year photographing landscapes at the lake—the world’s deepest and oldest—in southeastern Siberia.

Monkeyfaced orchids, more strange than beautiful nature

West Coast, Sweden

I don't know whether to shoot them or feed them.

I would put them outside in the hope they would run away.

Cheaper than feeding them, I guess.

Do you think they could scare away this awful and big ugly cat from my property?

Lifting the moon.......

Giant Seagull.......

The sun rises behind a lines of trees in Teesdale, County Durham, UK

somewhere in florida...

my dock

You lucky duck!!!!!