National Geographic Photo of the Day: March 24th of 2015

March 24, 2015

Character Development

Photograph by Patrick Quinn, National Geographic Your Shot

Amateur opera singers transform themselves into their characters before a performance in China. “They all have day jobs and are extremely busy, but they have a passion for Hainan Opera,” writes Patrick Quinn, who submitted this picture to the recent Your Shot assignment Transitions: As the World Turns. “[This is] where they paint on masks and become someone else.”