Creative imagery, gold winner: Sprats and Bread, Ruediger Schulz, Germany. (Photo by Ruediger Schulz/2021 Bird Photographer of the Year)

Burka-wearing Afghan women walk past a clothing shop, in Herat, Afghanistan, Tuesday, November 23, 2021. (Photo by Petros Giannakouris/AP Photo)

Women sells vegetables at Kaporo market in Conakry, Guinea Monday, September 13, 2021. (Photo by Sunday Alamba/AP Photo)

A man dressed in a Halloween costume swims along the coast of the northern Lebanese city of Batroun, on October 28, 2021. (Photo by Ibrahim Chalhoub/AFP Photo)

A cow is silhouetted grazing next the smoke of a chimney of an incineration plant in Lausanne at sunrise on November 19, 2021. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP Photo)

A man rides past a destroyed tank in Mesobit, Ethiopia, on December 06, 2021. (Photo by Amanuel Sileshi/AFP Photo)

Wise Guys & Die Klasse der Auszubildenden zum Forstwirt der Lehranstalt für Forstwirtschaft in Bad Segeberg – Sägewerk Bad Segeberg

A schoolgirl walks on an under-construction railway track at Navapura, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, November 29, 2019. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)