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a panda standing in a tree in a Chinese forest
March 19, 2015

Pandarama

In China to photograph the life of the giant panda and its environment, Your Shot member Marco Mattiussi obtained special permission to visit areas with captive-raised pandas that had been released into the wild. “For this shot I was ... [in] the right place at the right time: It was rainy and foggy, very wet weather, and the panda decided to climb a beautiful tree in front of me.”

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Photograph by Marco Mattiussi, National Geographic Your Shot

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