Photo of the day 228

Cattle Bones, Simpson Desert, Australia, 1992

Photograph by Medford Taylor

A multicolored sunset contrasts the bleached bones of dead cattle in Australia's Simpson Desert. Though forbiddingly dry, the Simpson Desert has aquifers and floodplains that make parts of it ideal livestock-grazing country.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Simpson Desert," April 1992, National Geographic magazine)