Indonesian mahouts (elephant masters) bathe elephants prior to a daily patrol at a Conservation Respons Unite (CRU) to control elephant-human conflicts in Serbajadi, East Aceh on April 7, 2016. Elephants have joined the front line in the fight against poaching and illegal logging in the dense jungles of Sumatra. Guided by their Indonesian mahouts, they trek alongside rivers, over rough terrain and deep into the rainforest in an area that is home to numerous endangered species, from orangutans to tigers, but which has suffered devastating deforestation in recent years. (Photo by AFP Photo/Januar)

Colombian-American actress Sofia Vergara shows some skin while basking on then beach early December 2024. (Photo by sofiavergara/Instagram)

A woman prays during a Sarwan Brata (fast) offering to Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of creation and destruction, at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, 21 July 2025. Nepalese Hindu women wearing red, yellow and green attire, flock to temples during Sarwan month to pray for a long and prosperous life for their husbands, or to find a good husband. (Photo by Narendra Shrestha/EPA)

Girls look at a penitent taking part in “Nuestro Senor Atado a la Columna, Maria Santisima de la Paz y San Juan Evangelista” Holy Week procession in Arcos de la Frontera, Spain, Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. (Photo by Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP Photo)

“Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (August 30 1863 Russian Empire – September 27, 1944 Paris, France) was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in color photography of early 20th-century Russia”. – Wikipedia

Photo: Dinner during haying. Russian Empire, Novgorod province, county Cherepovets, 1909. (Photos by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky via US Library of Congress and Prokudin-Gorsky.org)

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An overlay image of 350 photographs shows the circumpolar star and aircraft trails above Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, United Kingdom on January 6, 2022. (Photo by Lee Thomas/The Times)

A child buys goods from a partially submerged shop in Companiganj of Sylhet district on June 20, 2024. In Sylhet, lashing rain and rivers swollen by flooding upstream in India also swamped heavily populated areas. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP Photo)

A girl carries a toddler through a flooded street after the passage of Hurricane Rafel in Batabano, Mayabeque province, Cuba, on November 7, 2024. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP Photo)