Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

Keyword: Light

Photo: Loren and Babs Padelford collect insects for the Photo Ark at Waubonsie State Park in Iowa.

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Loren and Babs Padelford collect insects for the Photo Ark at Waubonsie State Park in Iowa.

Photo: Joel Sartore collect insects for the Photo Ark at Waubonsie State Park in Iowa.

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Joel Sartore collect insects for the Photo Ark at Waubonsie State Park in Iowa.

Photo: Ellen Sartore collects insects for the Photo Ark at Waubonsie State Park in Iowa.

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Ellen Sartore collects insects for the Photo Ark at Waubonsie State Park in Iowa.

Photo: Rays of sunlight filter through trees in Cincinnati, Ohio,.

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Rays of sunlight filter through trees in Cincinnati, Ohio,.

Photo: Joel Sartore’s son helps to document endemic insects for the Photo Ark.

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Joel Sartore’s son helps to document endemic insects for the Photo Ark.

Photo: A stream of traffic at night in Cape Town, South Africa.

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A stream of traffic at night in Cape Town, South Africa.

Photo: Cole Sartore rigs lights above the monkey holding area at the Singapore Zoo.

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Cole Sartore rigs lights above the monkey holding area at the Singapore Zoo.

Photo: Kalibasib (Nickname is Kali), an 18-year-old male tamaraw or Mindoro dwarf buffalo, Bubalus mindorensis, at Tamaraw Gene Pool Farm on Mindoro Island in the Philippines.

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Kalibasib (Nickname is Kali), an 18-year-old male tamaraw or Mindoro dwarf buffalo, Bubalus mindorensis, at Tamaraw Gene Pool Farm on Mindoro Island in the Philippines.

This species critically endangered on the IUCN Red List.

Photo: A one room school house with lightning in the background.

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A one room school house with lightning in the background.

Photo: A staged horror scene with a young woman and a chicken.

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A staged horror scene with a young woman and a chicken.

Photo: The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira, an underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 meters underground in a Halite mountain near the town of Zipaquira, in Cundinamarca, Colombia.

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The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira, an underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 meters underground in a Halite mountain near the town of Zipaquira, in Cundinamarca, Colombia.

Photo: A man wears a mask at the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira, an underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 meters underground in a Halite mountain near the town of Zipaquira, in Cundinamarca, Colombia.

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A man wears a mask at the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira, an underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 meters underground in a Halite mountain near the town of Zipaquira, in Cundinamarca, Colombia.

Photo: The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira, an underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 meters underground in a Halite mountain near the town of Zipaquira, in Cundinamarca, Colombia.

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The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira, an underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 meters underground in a Halite mountain near the town of Zipaquira, in Cundinamarca, Colombia.

Picture of two women helping set up to photograph a rowi kiwi or Okarito kiwi (Apteryx rowi) at the West Coast Wildlife Centre in Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand.

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Two women helping set up to photograph a rowi kiwi or Okarito kiwi (Apteryx rowi) at the West Coast Wildlife Centre in Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand. This is the rarest of all the kiwi species with fewer than 400 animals remaining. This center is the place where they incubate eggs that are brought in from nests in the wild, increasing the chance of chick survival from 5 percent in the wild to 75 percent if the chick is raised in captivity and then released.

Picture of a man pointing out lights for the bison shoot at the Oklahoma City Zoo

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A man points out the lights for the bison shoot at the Oklahoma City Zoo.

Photo: A man is bathed in the glow of his phone while on a bat bioblitz in the Big Bend Wildlife Management Area near Perry, Florida.

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A man is bathed in the glow of his phone while on a bat bioblitz in the Big Bend Wildlife Management Area near Perry, Florida.

Photo: A man is bathed in the glow of his phone while on a bat bioblitz in the Big Bend Wildlife Management Area near Perry, Florida.

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A man is bathed in the glow of his phone while on a bat bioblitz in the Big Bend Wildlife Management Area near Perry, Florida.

Photo: A man is bathed in the glow of his phone while on a bat bioblitz in the Big Bend Wildlife Management Area near Perry, Florida.

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A man is bathed in the glow of his phone while on a bat bioblitz in the Big Bend Wildlife Management Area near Perry, Florida.

Photo: A teenage girl appears to lie dead in an empty swimming pool as a man looks on.

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A teenage girl appears to lie dead in an empty swimming pool as a man looks on.

Photo: An infrared image of a young woman in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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An infrared image of a young woman in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Photo: The basement of the fourth oldest home in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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The basement of the fourth oldest home in Lincoln, Nebraska.

A pink zebra beauty tarantula (Eupalaestrus campestratus) is videotaped by the Louie Psihoyos film crew at the Santa Barbara Zoo.

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A pink zebra beauty tarantula (Eupalaestrus campestratus) is videotaped by the Louie Psihoyos film crew at the Santa Barbara Zoo.

A pink zebra beauty tarantula (Eupalaestrus campestratus) is videotaped by the Louis Psihoyos film crew at the Santa Barbara Zoo.

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A pink zebra beauty tarantula (Eupalaestrus campestratus) is videotaped by the Louis Psihoyos film crew at the Santa Barbara Zoo.

Photo: Details of the Auckland Civic Theatre in downtown Auckland, New Zealand.

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Details of the Auckland Civic Theatre in downtown Auckland, New Zealand.

Photo: Details of the Auckland Civic Theatre in downtown Auckland, New Zealand.

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Details of the Auckland Civic Theatre in downtown Auckland, New Zealand.

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