Photo of the Day: Best of November

Every day, we feature an image chosen from thousands around National Geographic. Here are some highlights from November.

Worlds right under our noses, majestic landscapes, sublime moments, and a dose of everyday humor: all figure into this month’s round-up of Photo of the Day images. Each of these extends an invitation to pause for a moment, take a breath, and maybe get lost for a minute or two. We start at the macro level, with the above photograph taken by Your Shot member Lance Isackson of turkey tail mushrooms in British Columbia. Can photos have a smell? If so, this one would be of damp woods—fresh and pungent.

Thiksey Gompa, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, sits at 11,800 feet in the northern Himalayan region of Ladakh, India. “I love this picture for a reason that it

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