Top Shot: Silence of Salt
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.
“Although it looks like a huge frozen lake, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is actually the largest salt flat in the world,” writes Your Shot photographer Menno Lammerts van Bueren. “I took this picture while waiting for the sunset, and almost forgot to press the trigger while enjoying this ultimate moment of silence.” Stretching more than 4,050 square miles of the Altiplano, the Salar de Uyuni was left behind by prehistoric lakes evaporated long ago. Photograph by Menno Lammerts van Bueren