Photos by @CarltonWard | Cooperative Bear, Frustrating Panther…That was the title of the blog I wrote about my attempt to camera trap a Florida panther at Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge in 2015. I was on assignment for @NatGeoTravel and after a month of trying, I had one bear kindly pose facing the camera and one panther show me her tail as she walked away. Frustrating and motivating at the same time, it was like she was daring me to try to tell her story. Three years and two National Geographic grants later, I'm still trying. I now have a network of camera traps (think photo studios hidden in the woods) pointed at game trails on refuges and ranches throughout South Florida for my #PathofthePanther project, which seeks to inspire the land protection needed for the endangered Florida panther to expand its range. I've had some successes with panthers over the past three years, but more often than not, my "cooperative bear, frustrating panther" mantra, still applies. Please follow my quest here and @CarltonWard as we focus on the story of the Florida panther and the habitat corridors it needs to recover and help us save wild Florida. The third photo is an alligator that should have been a warning that the water was about to rise. A wet winter, followed by strong summer rains proceeded to flood this trail for the next 18 months. @insidenatgeo @natgeocreative #FloridaWildlifeCorridor #FloridaWild #KeepFLWild #panther #bear #gator #alligator #swamp #Everglades
“Tokyo is my second home,” says Pharrell Williams (@pharrell), who recently spent a day in the city stopping in on some of his favorite spots. “The city has had this incredible impression on me since the first time I came here. It feels like going to another world, where humility is so thick in the air; as soon as the humidity hits you when you get off the plane, so does the humility. The people have an incredible appreciation for others, and they are some of the most amazing collectors of not just things, but also experiences.”
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Photo by @renan_ozturk // The cigar smoke and dripping sweat seemed frozen by the first rays of sun down the narrow streets. Searching for the intersection of natural light and humanity, Old Havana, Cuba, 2016. ~
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Top Shot: Summer Bear | Photograph by Erik Mandre
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#YourShotPhotographer Erik Mandre captured this serene moment of a bear during summertime. “I love this moment you are capturing here — I am glad you are shooting this frame with a 400mm lens, because you definitely have this bear’s attention,” writes Your Shot Producer David Y. Lee. “From this distance, this bear is cute standing on its rear legs. But I can only imagine how quickly that energy would change if it decided you were a threat… This is one scene I never want to see when I go camping.” This image was selected for the Daily Dozen on August 13, 2018.
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Historia de una cara - El trasplante revolucionario que le dio a una joven una segunda oportunidad.
La cara comunica quiĂ©nes somos al transmitir las emociones. Es el portal hacia el mundo sensorial. Entonces, Âżpodemos decir que somos nuestras caras? Katie Stubblefield perdiĂł la suya cuando tenĂa 18 años y los mĂ©dicos le dieron una cara nueva a los 21. Descubre esta historia de sufrimiento, identidad, resilencia y milagros mĂ©dicos en www.nationalgeographicla.com/una-cara-nueva
When you’re super cute in your new @lucyand.co bandana and you know it // 
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