An adult black-rumped flameback woodpecker is pestered by a pair of hungry chicks in Rajarhat, India in the second decade of May 2024. (Photo by Kalyan Acharya/Solent News)
From the “Paradise Revisited” story in the November 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine, this image is a beautiful vision of father and son fishermen as they move through the multicolored coral gardens of Kembe Bay, Papua New Guinea, in a traditional outrigger canoe. (Photo by David Doubilet/National Geographic Creative)
People walk along the Neva River at sunset in St.Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, December 6, 2016. The temperature in St.Petersburg is –9C ( 15.8 °F). (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)
A model gets her outfit arranged backstage before showcasing the collection by Zhang Kejia during the China Fashion Week in Beijing on March 26, 2019. (Photo by Nicolas Asfouri/AFP Photo)
Actress Victoria Justice arrives at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on August 28, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images)
The sun rises beside St Mary's Lighthouse in Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, as the unseasonably cool weather continues on Thursday, April 28, 2016. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)
Third place: the rear leg, claw and respiratory trachea of a louse (Haematopinus suis). (Photo by Frank Reiser/Nassau Community College/Nikon Small World Photomicrography 2021)