We’ve featured the International Photography Awards on Bored Panda before, but coming back to this competition always feels like opening a door into a hundred different worlds at once. One minute ...

Shortly before 10 a.m. on July 23, 2024, a violent hydrothermal blast ripped through Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone, hurling mud and steam into a towering plume estimated at 400 to 600 feet high. The ...