Lucy Blacker from Australia takes to the water at the 40 Foot for a Christmas Day Swim in Ireland on December 25, 2022. (Photo by Alan Betson/The Irish Times)
People celebrate the start of the New Year as fireworks illuminate Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, early Monday, January 1, 2024. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)
Australian ballet dancer Marilyn Rowe prepares to perform Swan Lake with the Australian Ballet at the Canberra Theatre in 1978. Rowe was appointed director of the Australian Ballet School in 1999. (Photo by John Crowther/The Guardian)
The sun rises this morning behind the 173ft spire of St Mary's church in the market town of Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire, UK on February 17, 2024. The church dates from the 13th century with the Ashlar faced tower added in the 15th century. (Photo by Andrew McCaren/London News Pictures)
A rainbow cuts through a squall above The Needles, the Isle of Wight, on Tuesday evening, April 16, 2024. (Photo by Jamie Russell/IslandVisions via BNPS)
Rows of blossoming peach trees line the fields of Aitona, in the province of Lleida, north eastern Spain, on March 22, 2025. Every year in March the thousands of hectares of blossoming peach trees create a sort of nature tourism with hundreds of people visiting the area to take in the colorful blossoms. (Photo by Josep Lago/AFP Photo)
A man walks towards a wave breaking on a rock pool at North Narrabeen Beach in Sydney on April 18, 2025, as large swells hit the east coast of Australia. (Photo by David Gray/AFP Photo)
The jewelled flower mantis, commonly found in Asia, is believed to be the inspiration for many martial artists is seen in Jakarta, Indonesia on August 2, 2016. (Photo by Prabu Dennaga/Barcroft Images)