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National Geographic is famous for its photography, particularly its wildlife photography. But it is often a surprise to open an edition and find a range of photographs that are not picture postcard quality. The photographers take pride in capturing emotions, scenes and events that often challenge conventional wisdom and which frequently make difficult viewing. An article on children?s deformities around a polluting Russian factory had photographs which were hard to stomach. On the other hand, the photographers are adept at finding beauty where you would little have imagined it: a lizard?s eye, a petri dish of bacteria, a pile of radioactive waste containers. The photographs in the magazine simply cannot be faulted. By keeping classic portraits of mountains reflected in lakes, savannah sunsets and whale tail flukes as the exception, not the rule, the photographs allow exploration of the less photogenic but more informative issues at stake.
