Researchers at Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories in Richland, Washington, go whole-hot, attaching an inhalation device to a live, though anesthetized, “minipig”- a perfectly formed swine bred down to approximate human wight and body surface/ This test, one of many hundreds involving pint-size porkers, helps determine safe levels of radioactive plutonium 239 in industrial and laboratory conditions. National Geographic, September 1978

Swinging in the rain, Japan’s “now” generation invades Dotombori, a street in downtown Osaka lined with restaurants and places of amusement. the five-petaled cherry blossom emblem of Expo ‘70 competes for attention with a gaudy welter of neon signs flashing traditional characters, National Geographic, March 1970

Stairstep to heaven, Tateyama’s Oyama summit bears a shrine, where the prayers of Shinto priest Norimaro Saeki are spoken, National Geographic, August 1984

On the far south coast, Foros Church clings to a rocky pech in the Crimean Mountains, National Geographic, September 1994

A candlelit crowd gathers in the plaza in front of City Hall on the last night of San Fermiín and sings a mournful song: “Poor me, poor me! How sad am I. Now San Fermín has ended. Woe is me.” National Geographic, November 1995

The Realism of the Elusive Sperm Whale, by Hal Whitehead, photographs by Flip Nicklin, National Geographic, November 1995

In the wondrous Realm of Mount McKinley, Pete and a party of our friends seek the future. We don’t like to think of Alaska as a “last frontier” but as a “new frontier.” It’s a place where we find the adventure of discovery- the discovery of who we really are and what the unexplained earth can give. National Geographic, January 1973

“”Berry fever” is the summer-fall seizure that sends me out picking the wonderful variety of wild fruits”, National Geographic, January 1973

Shoestring oasis of wild palms, fiery red in this infrared photograph, boreders the fault north of the Imperial Valley. Movement of the plates has ground the boundary rock into a fine clay known as “gouge,” which forms a subterranean dam. Groundwater trapped on the uphill side produces the striking line of vegetation- a fragile manifestation of the titanic forces constantly reshaping the restless earth. National Geographic, January 1973

When the earth twitched: Collapsed overpasses lie in ruin and toppled cans strew a supermarket after an earthquake along a minor fault shook the San Fernando Valley on February 9, 1971. Measuring a moderate 6.5 on the Richter scale, it left 64 persons dead and caused half a billion dollars’ damage in suburban Los Angeles. National Geographic, January 1973