Water ripples over sand in the Virgin Islands.
Photograph by Todd Gipstein
意译：海浪在沙滩上面泛起涟漪，处女岛。
A snowflakes shape depends on the temperature at which it forms. This type of snowflake, called a sectored plate, forms when the temperate dips below about 5 degrees Fahrenheit (-15 degrees Celsius).
Photograph by Kenneth Libbrecht
意译：雪花的外形依靠温度高低会形成不同的造型。这种雪花型叫做盘子状扇形雪花，它在摄氏负十五度时形成。
Garden of the Gods, Hawaii, 1996.
Photograph by Jim Richardson
A time-exposed photograph turns car headlights into luminous trails winding through the Garden of the Gods on Hawaiis Lanai Island.
In the foreground sits a cairn of red-brown volcanic stones, likely built by tourists. Locals usually dismantle the visitors handiwork though.
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Hiding Away in Lanai," January/February 1997, National Geographic Traveler magazine)
意译：主标题――上帝的花园，夏威夷，1996年。
这幅图片显露一辆小汽车的前灯发出明亮的轨迹，一直穿过那上帝的花园，在夏威夷的（Lanai）岛屿。
最为显著的景观是堆石界标是由红褐色的火山岩石群，它们很可能是旅游者修建的。当地的居民通常会拆除旅游人的手艺。
Workers collect colorful laundry from a rooftop clothesline in India.
European languages did not have a word for the color orange until the fruit of the same name arrived from Asia. The word "orange" comes form the Sanskrit naranga, which means orange tree.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Quest for Color," July 1999, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by Cary Wolinsky
意译：印度的工人们收集华丽色彩的布料――纱丽，在屋顶晒衣绳凉晒。
欧洲人的语言中没有一个橙色的字，直到从亚洲的水果中有相似的名字――橙子。“橙”字来自梵语，它的意思是：桔、柑、橙树。
In the midst of an underwater ballet, a school of sea nettles drifts through Californias Monterey Bay Aquarium. Chrysaora fuscescens is a type of jellyfish found in coastal waters from Alaska to California. The invertebrate hunts by trailing its long sting-cell-covered tentacles and ruffled mouth-arms through the water, combing for zooplankton and larval fishes.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Swarm Theory," July 2007, National Geographic magazine)
意译：主标题――水下芭蕾舞。透过加利福尼亚的（Monterey）海湾水族馆，一群典型的水母是来自阿拉斯加到加州的。是属于无脊椎动物，它们寻找食物是依靠那隐蔽的刺疼细胞――触须和有褶饰边的口――肢体，用梳毛的办法对来自水中的浮游动物和小鱼吞食。
