National Geographic- Camels & Shadows – Updated!

I’ve had so many people interested in this fantastic photograph so there is a way to download it for your desktop wallpaper.

Here is the official link: National Geographic with easy instructions. Enjoy!

 

“All Fall Down”

“All Fall Down”
Photograph by Michael Melford

Battered by sea and storm, the massive walls of Fort Jefferson rise from Florida’s Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park. Cast-iron frames once held shutters for cannon portals. As it rusts, the iron expands dramatically, superintendent Dan Kimball explains, “and just explodes the masonry out of the walls.” The most recent effort to restore the walls began last year, but it’s going to cost more than 12 million dollars to complete. “We didn’t get funding this year,” Kimball says, “but we’re hoping to restart the project by 2008.”

 

Our National Parks in Peril – A Series!

“Disrupted Oasis”
Photograph by Michael Melford

A power plant ruptures Arizona’s primordial juncture of sandstone and sky in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. A hundred years ago “we thought we could draw a line on a map and declare a place protected,” says Roger Clark of the Grand Canyon Trust. But today some of the biggest threats to parks lie beyond their boundaries.

 

National Geographic – From the Heart & Catching Some Rays

From the Heart
Photograph by Theo Allofs

Rising from turquoise waters, Heart Reef is one of many whimsical natural formations found in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

Catching Some Rays
Photograph by Tui De Roy, Minden Pictures

In prehistoric splendor, a marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) at Ecuador’s Galápagos National Park warms up by basking atop lava rocks.

 

National Geographic – Acadia National Park

Photograph by Michael Melford

Maples flare into scarlet prominence as fall sweeps through Acadia National Park. Though one of the smallest U.S. national parks, Acadia is among the most popular, with 2.2 million visitors a year.

Photograph by Michael Melford

Reflected foliage paints the surface of Eagle Lake.