Photo of the Day 23

Children at Play, Yerevan, Armenia, 2003

Photograph by Alexandra Avakian

Young girls in Yerevan, Armenia, play in the mist created by the city's Republic Square fountain. This grandiose water feature is an apt fixture in a city whose landscape is dominated by the ghostly Mount Ararat, thought to be the resting place of Noah's Ark.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Rebirth of Armenia," March 2004, National Geographic magazine)