Be Amazed

“Photography is a journey, an exploration toward our unconscious, a tool of self-knowledge and personal exploration that allows us to be children again, because it gives us the ability to be amazed.” 

—Tamara Merino, contributing photographer, National Geographic, 2019. Image: Ami Vitale “Joseph Wachira, a keeper at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, says goodbye to Sudan, the last male northern white rhinoceros, who died in 2018.”

• Editorial Comment: See if these don’t amaze you — NatGeo’s best photos of 2019.

  

PeezPix

Echium.

Check out the April issue of Senior News — “An Unsettling Spring.”

  

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