Category: Face Of The Day

A grasshopper rests on a car roof at the Royal Bafokeng Sports Campus near Rustenburg on June 9, 2010 after an England team training session ahead of the 2010 World Cup tournament in South Africa. By Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images.

A giant red nose adorns the famous Mr Moon Face at the front of Melbourne's Luna Park, as support of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) and Kids Victoria annual Red Nose Day fundraising appeal, on June 8, 2010. SIDS and Kids Victoria is one of Australia's best known not-for-profit organisations, dedicated to saving the lives of babies and children during pregnancy, birth, infancy, and childhood.  By William West/AFP/Getty Images.

A crowd of people read a prayer together during a vigil for the oil spill along Pensacola Beach where oil globs have come ashore as oil continues to flow from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on June 6, 2010 in Pensacola, Florida. The vigil was put on by the Pensacola Beach Community Church. Reports indicate that BP's latest plan to stem the flow of oil from the site of the Deepwater Horizon incident may be having some success. By Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

A German soldier of the 2nd Infantery Company plays a game with a friend as he waits to depart on a mission on May 25, 2010 at the PRT in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Germany has more than 4,500 military forces in Afghanistan as part of the US-led International Security Assistance Force. Amid growing public resentment towards the prolonged mission in Afghanistan, the German parliament, the Bundestag, voted in February for extension of Germany's military mission in Afghanistan and the deployment of additional 859 troops. By Miguel Villagran/Getty Images.

Neatorama reviews Joel Sartore’s Rare: Portraits of America’s Endangered Species:

The first thought that ran across my mind when I read Joel Sartore’s book…was it’s a gorgeous book. Joel, a National Geographic photographer, has been on a 20-year personal mission to photograph examples of the world’s most endangered species, so you’d kinda expect that out of him.

There are currently about 1,500 known species in the world that are endangered – Joel presents 68 of them in his book, ranging from wolves to wolverines, pitcher plant to pineapple cactus; all exquisitely photographed…..The second thought that ran across my mind was that it’s a rather sad book. One of the last two Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits in the world died a few months after Joel took its photograph…

Heaps of beautiful still images here and here.

(Hat tip: 3QD)

A soldier from the U.S. Army Old Guard places a flag on a grave at Arlington National Cemetery May 27, 2010 in Arlington, Virginia. About 1,300 soldiers, sailors and Marines in about three hours placed a flag at each of the more than 300,000 gravestones at Arlington ahead of the Memorial Day weekend. By Mark Wilson/Getty Images.

A Palestinian woman whose house has been occupied by Jewish settlers argues with Israelis who came to celebrate Jerusalem Day on May 12, 2010 in front of her disputed house in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Israel recently celebrating the anniversary of the 'unification' of Jerusalem, marking 43 years since it captured mainly Arab east Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East war. By Ahmad Gharabli/Getty.

Cygnets sit beside their mother who is nesting at Abbotsbury Swannery – the only publicly accessible colony of nesting mute swans in the world – on May 18, 2010 in Dorset, England. The arrival of the cygnets is traditionally seen as the start of summer and local traditions claim the Benedictine Monks who owned the swannery between 1000 AD and the 1540s believed the first cygnet signaled the season's first day. Abbotsbury Swannery's mute swans – up to 1,000 in total – are all free flying, and are not kept in cages. By Matt Cardy/Getty Images.

A protester shouts slogans against BP during a demonstration in front of the BP 'Green Curve' Station, in Los Angeles, California, on May 12, 2010. BP battled on May 12 to cap a huge oil leak, lowering a box dubbed 'a top-hat' into the Gulf of Mexico amid mounting US anger over a spill flowing unchecked into the sea for three weeks. Frustrated by the failure to staunch the leak, President Barack Obama dispatched a top team to BP's command center in Houston, Texas, to throw the administration's scientific expertise behind the British oil giant's efforts. Photo by Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images.

A young girl prays at a temple as Hinduism adherents celebrate the Galungan day in Denpasar on the island of Bali on May 12, 2010. The Galungan day falls every six months based on the Balinese calendar, to commemorate the victory of virtue upon evil and thank God for the earth and its contents. By Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP/Getty Images.