Category: Face Of The Day

An adult Puffin watches from the cliff tops on Skomer Island on July 20, 2010 in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The island, which has the biggest Puffin colony in Southern Britain, plays host to over 10,000 Puffins, who come from April to the end of July to breed. The small island, off the coast of southwest Wales and managed by the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, is one of the most important and accessible seabird breeding sites in Europe and has become a Mecca for wildlife and bird lovers. By Matt Cardy/Getty Images.

A US soldier of First Squadron, 71st Cavalry writes outside his tent at a forward operating base in Dand district of Kandahar province in Afghanistan on July 20, 2010. NATO and the United States have 143,000 troops in Afghanistan, set to peak at 150,000 in coming weeks as they take a US-led counter-insurgency to the insurgents' southern strongholds in an effort to speed up an end to the war. By Manpreet Romana/AFP/Getty Images.

Or: portrait of the blogger as a very young man. My brother just got a scanner and converted a bunch of old slides into digital photos. After the jump, my family in the late 1960s:

by Chris Bodenner

A Kashmiri child stands besides a stretch of barbed wire during a curfew in Srinagar on July 18, 2010. A security lockdown and a general strike called by separatists crippled life in Indian-ruled Kashmir after a brief calm returned to the region. Early Sunday, thousands of police and paramilitary forces moved into the streets of Srinagar, Indian Kashmir's summer capital, warning residents not to venture out of their homes. By Rouf Bhat/AFP/Getty Images.

by Chris Bodenner

First lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden greet guests an event about the Affordable Care Act at George Washington University Hospital on July 14. Hospital employees also attended this event, including Inger Mobley, left, Clinical Manager of the Breast Care Center. Obama pointed out new regulations in the Affordable Care Act that will require new health plans to cover the cost of preventive screenings for diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure.  By Leslie E. Kossoff-Pool/Getty Images.

by Chris Bodenner

Workers put the finishing touches on a massive billboard advertisement at a shopping center in Dubai on July 14, 2010. By Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty Images.

by Chris Bodenner

A Bosnian woman mourns over the coffin of a relative during preparation for mass burial at the Potocari memorial cemetery near Srebrenica on July 11, 2010. Sunday marked 15 years since the Srebrenica massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslims by Bosnian Serbs, the darkest episode of the violent break-up of Yugoslavia. By Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images.

One of Andrew Zuckerman's astonishing bird photographs, featured in the Daily Telegraph today. They are all photographed with high definition cameras against a white background, sharpening the portraiture and elevating the beauty. More background on his technique here. You can buy his book here.

Sri Lankan traditional dancers perform the 'thovil' or devil dance, which is performed to exorcise evil spirits, outside the UN office during a protest rally in Colombo on July 6, 2010. Protesters led by a Sri Lankan cabinet minister were speaking out against a UN panel set to probe allegations of war crimes. By Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images.

Pfc. Reed Kaiser of Detroit, Michigan with the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division looks into the hills where militants were attacking his unit July 2, 2010 over the village of Joikahr, Afghanistan. Paratroopers in the 82nd Airborne moved on Joikahr in the early morning of July 2 to establish a security outpost overlooking the town. When they arrived, they found the town deserted of civilians and came under fire from suspected Taliban militants ensconced in the surrounding hills. After several hours of fighting, the paratroopers along with Afghan forces established the outpost on a hill overlooking the village.

The U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne along have been working with Afghanistan National Army forces for nearly a year in this combative zone in the far northwest of the country, building relationships and attempting extend the Afghanistan central government rule to this rural and fiercely independent area rife with Taliban insurgents.

By Chris Hondros/Getty Images.