Where: Sarawak state, Borneo, Malaysia
When: 1998
Photographer: Maria Stenzel
A Penan family builds a traditional temporary shelter from palm fronds, saplings, and rattan. A lamin takes only about an hour to build, but lasts a month.
From "Vanishing Cultures," August 1999, National Geographic magazine
Where: Unknown location, United States
When: 1992
Photographer: Maria Stenzel
"Tiny titan of U.S. agriculture, a foraging honeybee flies as far as four miles [six kilometers] from its hive to find food—in this case, chicory pollen—yet usually visits only one type of flower during a single sortie. This floral fidelity helps make bees ideal crop pollinators. As the bee gathers food for the hive, the pollen grains that cling to its hairy body will rub off at each flower to produce a seed, fruit, or vegetable."
—From "America's Beekeepers: Hives for Hire," May 1993, National Geographic magazine
Where: Adirondack State Park, New York
When: 1996
Photographer: Maria Stenzel
"Rolling across nearly six million acres [nearly two and a half million hectares] in upstate New York, the Adirondacks—mountains and state park—seduce not with a shout but with a wildness that often speaks no louder than a whisper."
—From "Adirondack High," June 1998, National Geographic magazine
Where: South Georgia island, Falkland Islands
When: 1998
Photographer: Maria Stenzel
Though covered in a coat of thick, soft, brown feathers, a juvenile king penguin must wait to enter the water until the age of ten months, when its first set of waterproof, adult feathers begins to grow in. Until then, chicks are entirely dependent on their parents for food.