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National Geographic Photo of the Day: Big Sur Coast
Big Sur Coast, California, 2000
Photograph by Frans Lanting
Wildflowers thrive amid twisted tree limbs along California’s Big Sur Coast. Stretching 42 miles (67.6 kilometers) along the Pacific from Carmel to San Simeon, the Big Sur Coast dazzles visitors with its craggy cliffs and dramatic ocean drop-offs.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Big Sur: California’s Elemental Coast,” August 2000, National Geographic magazine)

Near Kairouan, Tunisia, 1979
Photograph by David Alan Harvey
“A farm boy in no particular hurry allows his donkey to browse on wild poppies as they shamble along toward field work near Kairouan, a city holy to Muslims.”

(Text from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Tunisia: Sea, Sand, Success,” February 1980, National Geographic magazine)