Photo of the Day 26

Llama in Pickup Truck, Chile, 2003

Photograph by Joel Sartore

A nervous llama lies in the back of a pickup truck amid the moonscape of Chile's Atacama Desert. Atacama's barren high plateaus are home to the Aymara people, who raise llamas for their meat and wool.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Driest Place on Earth," August 2003, National Geographic magazine)