Russia's Andrey Rublev tries to remove a cricket from the court during the men's singles match against USA's Sebastian Korda on day six of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 19, 2024. (Photo by David Gray/AFP Photo)

José María Larocca of Argentina riding Finn Lente soars over a water jump in the Rolex Grand Prix in Falsterbo, Sweden on July 13, 2025. (Photo by Petter Arvidson/Bildbyran/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Elise de Jong of Team Netherlands competes in the Women's Pole Vault during day two of the European Athletics U20 Championships 2025 on August 08, 2025 in Tampere, Finland. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images for European Athletics)

Earlier this year, Belgian film-maker and artist Vincent Bal stumbled upon an uncanny resemblance to an elephant in the shadow of his tea cup. This gave him the idea for Shadowology, a series of doodles that interact with the shadows of simple, everyday objects: a banknote, some ice cubes and a flower, for example, can turn into a church, a woman and a hippy. “I draw a few lines and I get my image. It’s really the shadows that inspire me”, Bal says. Here: “Stonedog”. (Photo by Vincent Bal/The Guardian)

These are the dunes of the Namib Desert, taken by Korea's Kompstat-2 satellite. The blue and white area is the dried riverbed of the Tsauchab river. (Photo by The European Space Agency)

Bob Woodward looks at the reconstruction he built of the Orpheus Pavement at Prinknash Abbey on March 31, 2010 in Gloucester, England. The replica mosiac, made of more than one-and-a-half million pieces of stone is described as one of the most significant archaeological projects of recent times. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Sydney artist Phillip George poses with two surfboards of his own design at Marks Park, Tamarama on December 16, 2008 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/Getty Images)

The 33-year-old Norwegian rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in twin attacks in Norway last year, arrives at a courtroom. (Photo by Heiko Junge/AP File Photo)