A high altitude view of sunrays lighting a salt lake in the desert. Stone curlews

A high altitude view of sunrays lighting a salt lake in the desert. Stone curlewsA high altitude view of sunrays lighting a salt lake in the desert. Islamic Republic of Iran.

A boy carves a shark into a block of sandstone during a school holiday program activity

Weeaproinah

Late afternoon sunlight falls across the trunk of a Smooth-barked Apple tree

Weaver birds make their nests from grass and hang them from tree branches

A school classroom window overlooking a village harbor

An astronomer teachers a tourist about Jupiter through a telescope

Southern Queensland

A guide displays the spikes on a pair of crampons for hiking on ice

A view of Ayers Rock under a twilight sky

A fisherman in a dugout canoe on a golden lake surface at dawn

A fish tank full of red goldfish in a market for Nowruz the Iranian New Year

An aerial view of the tortured and fractured surface of a glacier flowing into the ocean