This story appears in the October 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Thirty-four years before the birth of this magazine, the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard sourly prophesied a ...

In honor of Earth Day, National Geographic is selling prints of some of the world's best nature photography from the past decade. In honor of Earth Day and the photographers who make our Earth ...

And then came photography. It emerged slowly, often accompanied by suspicion and derision. When an early editor of National Geographic magazine wanted to include photographs, some members of the ...

Puffin, Shiant IslandsThis Month in Photo of the Day: National Geographic Magazine FeaturesDapper black-and-white razorbills (at right) and bright-beaked puffins (at left and in air, at center ...

You may want to make photographs of people going about their business—vendors in a market, a crowd at a sports event, the line at a theater. You don't want them to appear aware of the camera.