Paul Kerr was able to capture this stunning vista of the aurora australis from Canberra, New Zealand on June 1, 2025. (Photo by Paul Kerr/Hold Still Photography)

A boy holds a machine gun at a military hardware exhibition during a swear-in ceremony for new recruits of the Russian military-patriotic club “Yunarmia” (Young army) in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Crimea, October 27, 2018. (Photo by Pavel Rebrov/Reuters)

An Orchid Mantis (Hymenopus coronatus) is perched on the head of a frog hanging from a tree branch on March 15, 2017 in Padang, Indonesia. (Photo by Riau Images/Barcroft Images)

Students of Kiev's Olympic College perform during a rally in front of the Parliament building in Kiev, Ukraine, 15 September 2020. Students were protesting against the reorganization of the college, at risk of being closed, and the land where it rises which could end up for sale along with the facility's stadium. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/EFE)

Children give “high-fives” as London Marathon runners pass down Deptford’s Evelyn Street, the eight-mile mark of the 26.2 mile course in London, England on Sunday, October 2, 2022. (Photo by Guy Corbishley/Alamy Live News)

A worker is immersed in a kaleidoscope of colour while they paint traditional umbrellas in Juwiring, Klaten, Central Java, Indonesia in December 2023. The workers who spend around 8 hours a day, depending on order quantities and customer deadlines are paid around Ј200 a month. They will paint a batch over the period of two to three days until each layer of paint is dry. Extras of the traditional umbrella will be made as many tourists come to buy them. (Photo by Lia Indriani/Solent News & Photo Agency)

Women wearing 2025 headbands attend New Year's Eve celebrations in Jakarta, Indonesia, on December 31, 2024. (Photo by Willy Kurniawan/Reuters)

“Sangoma” initiate Dipuo Banda (C) is led out of her teachers shack while she remains in a trance like state prior to dancing during her 3 day initiation ceremony with her teacher, family, friends and students in the Alexandra Township in Johannesburg, South Africa, 14 May 2021. Sangomas, the Zulu term for Medicine Women or traditional healers, fulfill different social and political roles in the community, including divination, physical healing, emotional and spiritual illnesses, directing birth or death rituals and finding lost cattle. (Photo by Kim Ludbrook/EPA/EFE)