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Link: Photo of the Day: Best of January | PROOF](http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2014/02/05/photo-of-the-day-best-of-january/)

When people ask me what makes a Photo of the Day—a curated look at photography around National Geographic—my answer is simple: I have to want to spend time with the picture, and whether full of complex detail or exquisitely simple, it has to stand on its own