Picture of the Day for Thursday, September 27, 2012

[Bondai]

Baobab Trees, Madagascar
Photograph by Pascal Maitre, National Geographic

This Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine Features

Avenue of the Baobabs, an area near Morondava protected since 2007, is all that remains of a once thick forest cleared for farmland. Growing 80 feet (24 meters) or more, baobabs are valued for fruit and bark.

Photo of the Day

[Gina]

Those are just wierd looking but beautiful.   They look supernaturalish.

[thundley4]

Those are just wierd looking but beautiful.   They look supernaturalish.

They look like a painting done for a sci-fi story.

[Chris_]

I'm guessing it was taken at sunset with low-speed film (or the digital equivalent).  It gives you that rich, deep color saturation that you don't normally get from a regular camera.

Galen Rowell was great at that.