Ship Anchor, Falkland Islands, 1988 Photograph by Steve Raymer A relic from the 19th century, a beached ship anchor lies near the ruins of a whaling station on New Island in the Falkland Islands. Savage seas and harsh weather often thwarted sailing ships attempting to round the tip of Chile at Cape Horn. Shoved by 20-foot (6-meter) breakers and 50-knot winds, battered ships sometimes drifted to rest on the rocky shores of the Falkland Islands. (Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Falkland Islands: Life After the War," March 1988, National Geographic magazine)

Grand Staircase-Escalante Outpost, Utah, 1999 Photograph by Len Jenshel Striated red-rock mountains capped by a piercingly blue sky overlook a weather-beaten outpost in Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Part of southern Utah's "red rock country," Grand Staircase-Escalante was named a national monument in 1996, adding a 1.9-million-acre (768,903-hectare) slice of parched, mineral-rich wilderness to U.S. protected lands. (Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Celebrating Canyon Country," July 1999, National Geographic magazine)

Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey, 1998 Photograph by Steve McCurry Rendered blue in this photograph by reflected light from the sky above and the Bosporus Strait below, Istanbul's Blue Mosque actually got its name from the tile covering its interior. Built for Sultan Ahmet I in the early 1600s, the Ottoman mosque was the first, aside from Mecca's Kaaba shrine, with six minarets instead of the usual four. (Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "City at the Crossroads," March/April 1998, National Geographic Traveler magazine)

Crop Dusting, Brawley, California, 2005 Photograph by Gerd Ludwig A setting sun casts a fiery glow over a crop duster spreading pesticides in a Brawley, California, field. In addition to controlling insects, bacterial diseases, and weeds, crop dusting can be used to apply fertilizers, delay fruit ripening, increase or decrease the number of fruit a plant produces, and defoliate plants to facilitate harvest. Biologists and farmers continue to weigh its costs and benefits. (Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Salton Sea," February 2005, National Geographic magazine)

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