Models pose during the LoveShackFancy Spring/Summer 2023 Presentation at Cooper Hewitt Museum during New York Fashion Week in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 12, 2022. (Photo by Andrew Kelly/Reuters)

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton walks past Houston Texans Cheerleaders ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of USA race at the Circuit of the Americas on October 23, 2022 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Ricardo Arduengo/Reuters)

Denver Nuggets dance team performs in the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Charlotte Hornets Sunday, December 18, 2022, in Denver. (Photo by David Zalubowski/AP Photo)

A member falls as Team Kazakhstan competes during the women's team pursuit speed skating final at the 9th Asian Winter Games in Harbin, China on Tuesday, February 11, 2025. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)

Chinese honor guards march after the arrival ceremony attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev at The Great Hall of The People in Beijing, China, 23 April 2025. (Photo by Iori Sagisawa/EPA/EFE)

A woman sells fried chicken at the Kyaik-Khauk pagoda festival in the Tanlyin township outside Yangon February 4, 2015. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)

In this June 23, 2015 photo, Ashaninka Indian beauty contestants pose for a photo with members of a visiting music group, hired to perform during the annual founding anniversary festivities, in Otari Nativo, Pichari, Peru. The contestants wear the simple brown dresses of the Ashaninka woman, their faces dotted in a traditional design with a red dye extracted from a spice called achiote. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)

Shortlisted: Pooyan Shadpoor, Houcheraghi. While walking along the shore of Larak, Iran – an island in the Persian Gulf – Shadpoor came across this luminous scene. The “magical lights of (the) plankton ... enchanted me so that I snapped the shot”, he writes. (Photo by Pooyan Shadpoor/2016 EPOTY)