<p>Record-setting <a href="http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/floods-profile/">floods</a> along the Yangtze River produced one unexpected upside: a whimsical image of police on patrol.</p><p>The officers are marching past <a href="http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/countries/china-guide/">China</a>'s famous Three Gorges Dam, an enormous—and controversial—<a href="http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/hydropower-profile/">hydropower</a> project.</p><p>On July 24, during the height of the flood season, the dam experienced its largest flood peak of the year with a flow of 2,470,000 cubic feet (70,000 cubic meters) of water per second.</p><p><strong>Why We Love It</strong></p><p>"The slick graphic lines of the policemen's legs and the dam structure behind them, both reflected in standing water, conflict in a really pleasing way with the totally chaotic water gushing nearby."—<em>Katel LeDu, director of photography</em></p>