<p dir="ltr">Each day, we bring you one photo from around National Geographic that fits our criteria for Photo of the Day—sometimes classic, sometimes quirky, always an image with a story to tell. For this year’s roundup, we looked at shares, likes, and comments from the social sphere to see which ones resonated most with you.</p> <p>While walking along the shore of Larak, Iran—an island in the Persian Gulf—Your Shot member Pooyan Shadpoor came across the luminous scene in the photo above. The “magical lights of [the] plankton ... enchanted me so that I snapped the shot,” he writes.</p> <p><i>Many of these photos were submitted to <a href="http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/">Your Shot</a>, our storytelling community where members can take part in photo assignments, get expert feedback, be published, and more. <a href="http://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/" target="_blank">Join now »</a></i></p>