Lighting from an approaching thunder storm strikes near the shore in Panama City Beach, Fla., on Thursday, July 10, 2014. (Photo by Brennen Smith/AP Photo/The Decatur Daily)
Iconaster longimanus, the icon star or double star, is a species of starfish in the family Goniasteridae. It is found in the west and central Indo-Pacific Ocean. The genus name comes from the Greek eikon, meaning portrait or image and possibly referring to the way the marginal plates frame the disc, and aster, meaning star. The specific name comes from the Latin longus manus and refers to the long, slender arms.
The contest began in 2007, and since then photographers from more than 70 countries have entered. Photo: Michael O'Neal of San Francisco won first place in the animals category in the 2014 iPhone Photography Awards. (Photo by Michael O'Neal)
Local priests celebrate the “Aimara New Year”, an Andean Bolivian traditional festival that marks the winter solstice in El Alto, Bolivia, 21 June 2016. Aimara or Aymara means the Return of the Sun. (Photo by Martin Alipaz/EPA)
Ada Wood, 10, perches on one of Castlerigg’s 38 stones during the summer solstice at Castlerigg stone circle in Cumbria, Britain, on June 21, 2016. (Photo by Christopher Thomond/The Guardian)
A vendor prepares breakfast on his mobile cart place on a railway track on which train services are suspended temporarily due to festival rush in Kolkata, India, Wednesday, October 2, 2024. (Photo by Bikas Das/AP Photo)
In this photo taken April 15, 2015, Clay Hielscher of Overbrook, Kan., poses for a photo in his home made Iron Man suit. While he enjoys building the battlesuits of his favorite super hero, Hielscher said the real reason he is so passionate about his pastime is his 11-year-old daughter, Kyrianna. They design and construct the suits together. (Photo by Chris Neal/AP Photo/The Topeka Capital-Journal)
The street artist known only as Slinkachu has been abandoning little people on the streets of London since 2006. His first project, “Little People in the City”, saw minature men, women and children living their lives on the streets of London and was immortalised in the 2008 book entitled “Little People in the City”. Since then, Slinkachu has done a number of other projects, notably “Whatever Happened to the Men of Tomorrow” which documented the decline of a tiny, middleaged and balding super-hero on the streets of London and “Inner City Snail – a slow moving street art project” which saw Slinkachu “customising” a number of London snails which then presumably went about their business none the wiser.