Photo of the Day 342

Farm and Floodwaters, Bangladesh, 1993

Photograph by James P. Blair

Raging rivers in Bangladesh create arable islands of silt, called chars, then slowly scrape away at their shorelines until eventually they disappear. More than 60 percent of Bangladeshis work in the agriculture sector.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Bangladesh: When the Water Comes," June 1993, National Geographic magazine)