Through the Magpie Eye: National Geographic Found

15.10.2014

National Geographic archive shot of someone in a patterned dress sheltering under a board propped against a basement wall

National Geographic Found is a cracking time waster from the dusty fingered folks in the archives of everyone’s favourite yellow magazine. Featuring photos of all sorts, from ‘a sled dog, tied to a whale rib, howling under the midnight sun’ to ‘two men struggling to free their scooter from a barbed-wire barricade’, this blog should provide you with hour after hour of rainy day fun.

Click here to see it, or if you’re really lazy you can scroll down to see some stand-out images that we thought we worth copying and pasting.

Sepia shot of someone lying on stony ground holding a large boulder up on raised knees, steam rising from the hills behind

Four smiling people gathered on and around a red bicycle outside a timber house with white-framed windows

Early colour shot of a robed rider on a camel led by someone in a turban, in front of red striped tents and a timber wall

Two hikers in red check shirts and sunglasses in front of snowy peaks, a third person riding in a backpack carrier

Three speedway riders leaning into a dusty bend on a dirt track, helmets in yellow, white and red

A steamy city street at dusk with a red neon BAR sign, a lorry and a lone figure crossing the wet road

Sepia shot of someone in a white dress stood on the shoulders of a second person in a hat, among maize as tall as the pair

Black and white shot of the moai of Easter Island on a grassy slope, a small group in hats at the foot of the largest

Early colour shot of two people in long skirts and headscarves among fallen stones below a ruined temple of stone columns

Sepia shot of a crowd of bathers packed into a tiered city fountain, water spraying over them and onlookers round the rim

Someone in a navy LA cap and round glasses holding a paper cup at a lemonade stand, a US flag and hand-written sign behind

Black and white shot of a figure tending a smoking fire on a grassy hilltop, a pale horse stood nearby under a wide sky

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