Come to Yosemite in February and you may be shoulder-to-shoulder with photographers hoping to get a shot of Horsetail Fall in the evening. When conditions are right, rays of the setting sun align with the falling water to set the cascade ablaze with light—a natural display called the ‘firefall.’ And in a bit of added mystique, Horsetail Fall itself is an ephemeral waterfall—it flows only for a short time in the winter and early spring.
A winter light show
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Moody skies over Valletta
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Ready. Set. Snow.
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The birth of Bauhaus
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Beethoven s 250th
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It s Tolkien Reading Day
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Yellow-eyed penguins, Moeraki, New Zealand
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On the wings of the Wright brothers
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The borrowed days are here
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Come out of your shell for World Turtle Day
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Punakaiki on South Island, New Zealand
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Snow aglow in central Japan
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Celebrating whales—and a whale of a tale
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Do spirits haunt the Gardens of Versailles?
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A stroll above the stratosphere
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Composite of photographs from the Apollo 15 mission
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Four Sisters, thousands of trees
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Sanday Island and the North Sea, Scotland
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A unique elephant encounter in Nantes
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Rocks on the move
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Ahh-tumn