National Geographic’s Top 10 Photos of 2008

National Geographic has revealed its top 10 most viewed photos of 2008, and it’s quite a fascinating gallery. At number 10 is the photo of the “uncontacted” Amazon tribe taken from an airplane. Others on the list include a variety of giant animals – including squid, stingrays and starfish – as well as a leopard in the snow, a deadlock between a frog and a snake and an absolutely amazing capture of a “dirty thunderstorm”, in which a volcanic eruption produces a lightning-laced storm that looks like hell on earth.

From National Geographic:

10. “Uncontacted” Tribe Seen in Amazon

Shown in National Geographic News’s tenth most viewed individual photo of 2008, members of an “uncontacted” Amazon tribe fire arrows at an airplane above the rain forest borderlands of Peru and Brazil in May. The natural dyes covering their bodies probably signal aggression, native-rights experts say.

Later it was revealed that, though this tribe apparently is truly uncontacted, authorities have known about it for decades.

See the rest over at National Geographic.

Link [National Geographic]

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