Beauty genre The National Geographic Life moment

The photos won the Spontaneous Moments event of the 2013 National Geographic Traveler competition.

Photographer Elaine Barker was waiting for the moment when the snake brought its head close to the girl watching it through the glass.(Photos were taken in an Australian zoo)

Water curtain during Songkran festival is held in Thailand from April 13-15.(Photo by Edgard De Bono)

Panos Laskarakis has exposed 30 seconds to get a lightning image in the rain in the western city of Ioannina, Greece.

A stray cat resides in a window in a rainstorm in Athens, Greece.(Photo: Yannis Behrakis)

The children play on the mudflats of the Mekong River, south of Laos.(Photo by author Sayan Chuenudomsavad)

Public buses in Dhaka, Bangladesh.(Photo: Kristian Leven)

The fly sits on the head of a grape snake in Colombia.

People of a small tribe in Angola are preparing dinner.