Jessica Crabtree

From Ana Cotta’s photostream on Flickr.

A lovely shot of swans in a lake in Annecy, France (National Geographic)

I wonder if this photo would look quite as amazing if it didn’t blend in so well with my blog template?

Here’s a photo to throw the midsummer heat into stark relief.

This one comes from a 1987 edition of National Geographic courtesy of Jim Brandenburg.

“The freezer may look bare but an arctic wolf knows a tasty fish might be within reach in the shallows off Canada’s Ellesmere Island. Barren and severe, the region is nearly devoid of human activity, so the animals show little fear of people.”

From Flickr (h.koppdelaney‘s photostream).

What I believe is a golden-crowned kinglet in a black willow tree.

Kinglets are extremely small songbirds similar to warblers, with sprightly, inquisitive personalities (like this one!) They prefer the habitat of coniferous forests. The photo is mine (public domain).

Light-mantled sooty albatross, Wikimedia Commons.

Light-mantled albatrosses are a threatened species of the circumpolar Southern hemisphere. Albatross pair bonds last for decades and individuals are known to live as much as forty years.

From National Geographic’s Weekly Wrapper.