Merit Prize Winner: “A Well Earned Rest in the Sahara”. This photo of Moussa Macher, our Tuareg guide, was taken at the summit of Tin-Merzouga, the largest dune (or erg) in the Tadrat region of the Sahara desert in southern Algeria. Moussa rested while waiting for us to finish our 45-minute struggle to the top. It only took ten minutes of rolling, running, and jumping to get back down. The Tadrat is part of the Tassili N'Ajjer National Park World Heritage area, famous for its red sand and engravings and rock paintings of cattle, elephants, giraffes, and rhinos that lived there when the climate was milder. Photo location: Summit of Tin-Merzouga, Tadrat, Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, Algeria. (Photo and caption by Evan Cole/National Geographic Photo Contest)

Visitors walk past sculptures on display as part of the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition in Sydney on October 29, 2019. Sculpture by the Sea is the world's largest annual, free-to-the-public, outdoor sculpture exhibition. (Photo by Peter Parks/AFP Photo)

Singer Halsey attends a basketball game between The Los Angeles Lakers Vs the Cleveland Cavaliers at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Ca. on January 13, 2020. (Photo by London Entertainment/Splash News and Pictures)

UK Love Island star Lucie Donlan, 24, goes from appearing on reality TV to treading the boards – as she poses barefoot with a skateboard in California in the first decade of May 2022. (Photo by Instagram)

American model Kylie Jenner poses with her newlywed sister, American media personality Kourtney Kardashian, model Kendall Jenner and Kylie's daughter Stormi in the last decade of May 2022. (Photo by kyliejenner/Instagram)

American model, actress and television personality Cindy Crawford in the last decade of January 2023 gives a glam look at herself in the “first photo dump of 2023”. (Photo by cindycrawford/Instagram)

English actress Lily James attends the “What's Love Got To Do With It?” UK Premiere at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on February 13, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Zak Hussein/Splash News and Pictures)

British model Jourdan Dunn attends the Victoria Beckham Womenswear Fall Winter 2023-2024 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on March 03, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)