Sunlight breaking through gray storm clouds. Sandpipers

Sunlight breaking through gray storm clouds. SandpipersSunlight breaking through gray storm clouds. Near Roma, New South Wales, Australia.

A detail of the delicate tentacles beneath a jellyfish bell

Espanola Island

shield wall and bastions of the Potala Palace overlooking the Himalaya at dawn

caress a solitary iceberg in a vast ocean

Konalda Station

The face and head of an alien-looking and venomous Goblin Fish

Yellow plastic bears at a public art display

It's a time of peace before the winter storms and snow arrive

An obedient Golden Retriever named Teddy sits and pants

Detaille Island

Now recogised as the Democratic Republic of the Congo

A neon billboard illuminated beneath the summer night sky in Copenhagen