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A small coastal village at the foot of dramatic volcanic mountains on the island of Santo Antão, Cape Verde.

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Stand-out images from over 50 countries

Stand-out images from over 50 countries

Images that stand out on their own, but haven't been published as part of a series. Working in over 50+ countries, Martin has a wide collection of stock imagery from all over the world.

Images represented by the National Geographic Image Collection.

A train of yaks loaded with white expedition gear walks down a rocky moraine in the Khumbu Himalayas of Nepal, with snowy peaks rising behind.

An older Nepali woman with grey hair and prayer beads pressed her palms together in prayer, eyes closed, a small votive between her hands.

A whitewashed Buddhist stupa with prayer flags stands below the towering snow-and-rock face of Lhotse on the trail to Everest Base Camp.

Portrait of a Nepali schoolgirl in a white shirt and tie, looking at the camera with an open notebook and a green pen in her hand.

Aerial view of a person on an inflatable packraft drifting through a maze of mossy islets and clear water on Norway's Hardangervidda plateau.

A horseback rider with a child crosses a wide grassy plain at the foot of dramatic eroded peaks in the Kyrgyz mountains.

Three young Kichwa villagers stand together in soft afternoon light at the edge of an Ecuadorian Amazon community.

Drone view of a person paddling an inflatable kayak through dark seaweed-covered shallows on the Norwegian coast.

A swimmer dives into the clear water of a mountain river on Norway's Hardangervidda plateau, splash radiating outward in midday sun.

An older Hindu pilgrim covered in pink Holi powder raises a hand and a long staff during the Lathmar Holi festival in Barsana, India.

Aerial view of a turquoise glacial river meandering between rocky outcrops in the Kyrgyz mountains, a lone hiker visible on a cliff edge.

Stark silhouette of a vulture perched on the broken branches of a dead tree against a pure white sky.

A lioness lies in dry tawny grass at last light in the Botswana bush, alert and watching off-frame.

Three lion cubs rest under a tree in the Botswana bush, the centre cub looking directly at the camera.

Three Dragon's Blood Trees silhouetted against a deep blue sunrise sky on the Diksam Plateau of Socotra, Yemen.

Tiny silhouettes of grazing animals on a tawny ridge in front of a vast Kyrgyz mountain veiled in passing rainshowers.

A Vietnamese rice farmer in a conical hat smiles at the camera while standing in a flooded paddy, karst peaks rising behind.

Silhouettes of two children in a sunlit doorway in Liberia, the older girl holding a toddler's hand against a wooden frame.

Two men arm-wrestle on a small stool beside a market shoe stall on a street in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

A wind-blown ridge of Kebnekaise in Swedish Lapland under cold winter sun, with a tiny line of climbers crossing the snowy crest.

A pair of large lichen-covered glacial boulders sit on the moor of a Swedish Lapland valley, snow-streaked mountains rising behind.

Panoramic landscape of a wide Swedish Lapland valley in autumn colours, a meandering river curving between low rocky peaks.

A person in a blue jacket photographs a roaring river waterfall in the Swedish Lapland mountains.

Portrait of an Andean child in a colourful patterned poncho and woven cap, sitting on a stool against an adobe wall in the Peruvian highlands.

An Andean girl in a vivid pink-and-blue patterned poncho peeks out from behind an adobe wall, looking shyly at the camera.

Two women in vibrant feathered carnival headdresses and beaded costumes smile during a traditional festival parade in Peru.

A small boat moves down a wide brown Amazon tributary in Peru, dense rainforest mountains rising under towering tropical clouds.

Macro portrait of a small orange-red toad on a mossy rock on the floor of the Peruvian Amazon.

A man casts a fishing net into a forest stream, the net spread mid-air against the green wall of the Peruvian Amazon.

A group of Indigenous Amazonian community members sit on the grass watching a football match at dusk in eastern Peru.

A smiling Ecuadorian boy in a blue shirt peeks from behind a wooden post, showing a small candy held in his teeth.

Kyrgyz honour-guard soldiers in turquoise uniforms stand at attention during a flag-raising ceremony on Ala-Too Square in Bishkek.

Two people row a wooden boat on Phewa Lake at sunset in Pokhara, Nepal, with hazy hills layered behind.

Three Tibetan Buddhist monks in maroon robes laugh together at the window of a Nepali monastery beside a painted ceremonial drum.

Close portrait of a Cape Verdean boy with sand on his shoulders smiling brightly on a sunlit beach.

A rhesus macaque sits on temple steps in Kathmandu inspecting a small Pilot juice carton it has stolen.

A young Nepali Buddhist novice lights a row of butter lamps along a candle-encrusted wooden rack in a Kathmandu monastery.

Several young monks light hundreds of butter lamps arranged in a glowing pattern on the courtyard of Boudhanath stupa in Kathmandu.

Through a black metal grill, two young monks in red robes light long rows of butter lamps at a Kathmandu monastery.

Two Hindu women in a red and a magenta sari sit on the stone steps of Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu, deep in conversation.

A Nepali woman in a purple top leans on a long stone counter holding rows of small clay butter-lamp cups topped with marigolds at Pashupatinath.

A small Norwegian fishing village hugs the shore beneath the cloud-wrapped granite walls of a Lofoten / Vesterålen mountain.

Macro shot of a small green lizard's head emerging from bright green vegetation on the floor of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Five young Buddhist nuns in pink robes walk barefoot along a road in Bagan, Myanmar, balancing alms baskets on their heads.

A young novice monk in red robes sits in a wicker chair on a Myanmar street, leaning forward to read a magazine.

Seagulls circle the white walls of the Essaouira fortress in Morocco, with a fleet of weathered blue fishing boats stacked in the foreground.

Panoramic view of the red mud-brick fortified village of Aït Ben Haddou in southern Morocco, set against a clear blue desert sky.

A person in a yellow jacket stands on a rocky summit overlooking a vast iceberg-strewn fjord and snow-capped mountains in East Greenland.

Two camel riders with loaded camels are silhouetted against the Sahara at sunset in Morocco's Erg Chebbi dunes.

Camels rest under a starry desert sky in Morocco's Erg Chebbi, their saddles still in place on the cool sand.

A lone person in blue robes walks the crest of a sand dune deep in Morocco's Erg Chebbi sand sea.

Aerial view of the Chouara tannery in Fez, Morocco — circular vats of red, blue and white dye packed into the medina, workers and drying skins among them.

A worker in a striped shirt walks among the dye vats of Fez's Chouara tannery, with bright pink skins draped at the edges.

A Liberian woman sits on a bed in a small Monrovia home, working on a laptop, a US flag pinned to the wall behind her.

Tilt-shift view of the dense beige buildings climbing the hills of Amman, Jordan.

A woman walks between massive Roman columns silhouetted against a deep gold-and-blue sunset, at Jerash, Jordan.

A health worker administers oral polio vaccine drops to a baby held by a parent during a vaccination drive in Jordan.

Men in saffron dhotis sit on caparisoned elephants holding tall sequinned ceremonial parasols at the Thrissur Pooram festival in Kerala, India.

A vast nighttime crowd raises mobile phones to film a row of decorated elephants at the Thrissur Pooram festival in Kerala, India.

An older Indian woman in a blue sari leans against the barred window of a moving Indian Railways train carriage, gazing out at the passing countryside.

A weathered blue-and-white wooden settlement house stands on a rocky shore in front of an icy fjord and snow-capped mountains in East Greenland.

A glowing pyramid-shaped iceberg floats on a black lake-like sea, mirrored in the still water against an inky background.

A person paddles a yellow sea kayak between drifting icebergs in front of snow-streaked mountains in East Greenland.

Drone panorama of Lítla Dímun, the small uninhabited green island of the Faroe Islands rising from the North Atlantic under a cap of cloud.

Drone view of the Drangarnir sea-stack arch in the Faroe Islands, three tiny figures standing on the green clifftop in the foreground.

Múlafossur waterfall pours from a green Faroese clifftop straight into the sea at sunset, the village of Gásadalur scattered above it.

Hikers descend a steep grass slope along a rope handrail above the Atlantic on the Faroese island of Mykines.

Close-up portrait of an Atlantic puffin sitting in green grass with a deep-blue out-of-focus sea behind, in the Faroe Islands.

Three Kichwa children run barefoot through grass past a thatched palm hut in an Ecuadorian Amazon village.

Three Kichwa children play with a yellow plastic hula hoop on the swept earth in front of a palm-thatched hut in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

A group of Cape Verdean boys laugh and gesture toward the camera on a sandy beach, hands and shoulders dusted with sand.

A woman lights a thick bundle of incense sticks at a Chinese Buddhist temple, smoke and other worshippers blurring around her.

A line of Chinese paramilitary soldiers in green uniforms stand at attention in front of a red Forbidden City wall in Beijing.

A Chinese woman stands beside a small noodle shop on a quiet warmly-lit street at night, a parked pedicab rickshaw to one side.

A young woman in a denim jacket, beanie and sunglasses cheers and raises a fingerless-gloved hand at a daytime rally in Stockholm.

An African elephant cow walks across a sun-warmed clearing followed by two calves, the smaller calf holding her tail with its trunk.