Pale as moonlight, whoopers settle down for the night on a frozen stretch of Hokkaido’s Notsuke Bay. “These birds aren’t shy,” says the photographer. Fed by humans, in some places they’re a tourist draw. “Good for tourism, not the swans,” a Japanese biologist says.
Hunting for morsels of plankton, a school of spadefish hovers near the surface off Japan’s subtropical Bonin Islands. The turquoise color permeates the water late in the afternoon, as the red rays of the setting sun spread out and grow weak.
Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys, stay warm in the winter by bathing in the natural hot springs at Nagano. The parents go to great lengths to protect their young. I saw this scene of two monkeys relaxing with a curious infant and captured the moment.
A rainy business day during the lunch hour in Ginza, Tokyo.
Photograph by Navid Baraty
Posting the National Geographic Photo of the Day here. I do not claim any ownership of these photos.
