National Geographic PHOTO GALLERY

SUPERSTORM  "The sight of this monstrous supercell was the stuff of dreams to me," says Your Shot photographer Will Eades. Orginially from Australia, he writes, "I had travelled from the other side of the world to see the biggest and most photogenic weather on the planet, and now that I was here bracing against the outflow as this mammoth storm rampaged across the Great Plains, all I could do was encourage the beast and yell into the wind."

BROTHER BEARS Two bear cubs play in a forest of the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine. Your Shot photographer Volodymyr Burdiak says he wasn't expecting to see them emerge from the bushes, and he had only a few seconds to get this photograph before they ran back into the woods with their mother.

STRIKE A POSE Dancers-in-training pose in a hallway of the Cuban National Ballet School. With 3,000 students studying dance within its walls, it is the largest ballet school in the world.