Editor's Choice: July 31, 2010

A few of the photos that caught my fancy on a relatively slow news day, July 31, 2010.

-- MIKE KELLY

Two cars are engulfed in flames following a three-car collision near Caledon Friday. Five people were injured when the vehicles collided on Hwy. 10 Saturday between Olde Base Line Rd. and The Grange Sideroad. TIM MULLIN PHOTO

The Daily Beast: July 31, 2010

Dogs, wearing hats and sunglasses, are used by their owner to beg for coins in Manila on July 22, 2010.  The Philippine government said it would give money directly to poor families in an effort to fight a sharp rise in the number of Filipinos enduring severe hunger.   NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images

Huge oil spill in China

A massive oil spill following the pipeline fire at the port in Dalian, in Liaoning province, China, July 17, 2010 is believed to be much worse than first thought.  From 60,000 to 90,000 tons of oil have estimated to have been spilled into the Yellow Sea.

Local fishermen clean up oily sludge by from the contaminated beaches at Nanhaitun, Weitang Bay. (Jiang He/Greenpeace/MCT)

Chelsea Clinton through the ages

Chelsea, 12, with her dad on the campaign trail in Hot Springs, Ark. STEPHAN SAVOIA/AP

12, at the governor's mansion in Little Rock, Ark. ROBERT SULLIVAN/AFP/Getty Images

A month before her 13th birthday, at soccer practice in Washington. MIKE MARUCCI/AFP/Getty Images

18, surrounded by bodyguards at Temple Mount compound, Jerusalem. JANE COHEN/AP Photo

19, the School of American Ballet's Winter Ball, New York. ANDREW H. WALKER/Getty Images

19, at the U.S. Army's Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo. JEROME DELAY/AP Photo

20, with mom, Phu Tang Village outside Hanoi. KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS

28, introducing her mother at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. CHRIS WATTIE/Reuters

29, with dad and Marc Mezvinsky, whom she'll marry Saturday. CHRIS WATTIE/Reuters

The Daily Beast - July 30, 2010

 

Giant panda Ju Xiao holds her newborn cub in her mouth at the Bifengxia panda breeding centre in Yaan, Sichuan Province July 27, 2010. (REUTERS/China Daily)

The Daily Beast - July 29, 2010

A four-day-old Zedonk, a rare cross between a zebra and a donkey, stands next to her mother at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Lumpkin County, Ga. Monday July 26, 2010. The director of the preserve says it is the first time in 40 years that a zedonk has been born there. (AP Photo/The Times,Tom Reed)

The Daily Beast: July 28, 2010

Sparrows cool down in a fountain as temperatures reached 36 degrees Celsius (96.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in central Moscow July 23, 2010. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

The Lost Negatives of Ansel Adams

Lost Ansel Adams negatives recovered by a California man who bought two boxes of them for $45 at a garage sale. The collection is worth an estimated $200 million.

Images courtesy of Rick Norsigian

Aerial View of The Yosemite Valley

View From The Yosemite Valley Floor

 

National Park Naturalist Ansel Hall

Bridal Veil Falls

Fisherman's Wharf

Carmel Mission

Looking Through the Trees

Carmel Coast

Yosemite Falls With Merced River in Foreground

 

Nevada Falls

 

Jeffrey Pine on Sentinel Rock

Vernal Falls

El Capitan

Inspiration Point

Yosemite Falls

 

Three Brothers with Morning Clouds

The Daily Beast: July 27, 2010

A wild civet eats ripe Arabika coffee fruits at a coffee plantation producing the expensive Luwak coffee in Bangli district on Bali island on July 21, 2010. Luwak coffeee beans come from the ripest fruit eaten by the cat-like creature, digested and excreted in droppings. It is then washed, dried and ground. The mammal's digestion process gives the famed flavor of Luwak, the world's rarest and most expensive coffee. Indonesia's highest Islamic body on July 20, 2010 abandoned a proposal to ban Muslims from drinking Kopi Luwak. It had considered issuing a fatwa against the pricey brew, on the grounds it was unclean. A cup of Kopi Luwak go for 80,000 rupiah (8.83 USD) in plush Jakarta coffee shops while the beans cost up to 500 dollars per kilogramme.  AFP PHOTO/SONNY TUMBELAKA

The Daily Beast: July 26, 2010

A newly-born calf mooches grass from its mother at Deepor Beel wildlife sanctuary, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Sunday, July 11, 2010. According to news reports, wild animals are becoming desperate and entering human areas in search of food and water, as the forest area is decreasing due to heavy deforestation and human encroachment. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)