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Top Shot: Enjoy the View

Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen, 12 photos chosen by the Your Shot editors from thousands of recent uploads. Our community votes for their favorite photo from the selection, and the Top Shot is showcased on the @natgeoyourshot Instagram account.

Senior Airman Angel Torres, a loadmaster from the 36th Airlift Squadron, Yokota Air Base, Japan, sits on the back of a C-130 Hercules during Operation Christmas Drop Dec. 8, 2016, over the Pacific Ocean. Sixty-Five years in the making, Operation Christmas Drop is the longest-running humanitarian airlift operation in the Department of Defense. Photograph by Gerald Willis

Looking down at the world.

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moma:

Edward Steichen’s “The Maypole (Empire State Building)”

Edward Steichen was born on this day in 1879. In addition to being a photographer himself, Steichen was Director of MoMA’s Department of Photography and curated the museum’s popular exhibition The Family of Man. Steichen took this photo of the Empire State Building a year after its construction ended, and used two separate negatives to create the photograph’s dizzying effect.

[Edward Steichen. The Maypole (Empire State Building). 1932. Gelatin silver print. Gift of the photographer. © 2017 The Estate of Edward Steichen/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.]

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life:

During the month of March, LIFE will be celebrating the great women who photographed for the magazine. Along with photos in the feed, we will also feature stories with iconic and rarely seen photos. Next up is Martha Holmes – she was a regular contributor to the magazine for over 40 years. She is pictured here on assignment in 1949. Check out Instagram stories for more on the great Martha Holmes. (George Cardoza—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #photographers #MarthaHolmes #WomensHistoryMonth

Photographer Martha Holmes