October winner. “A burst of the aurora borealis over Kirkjufell, taken in September 2016. This shot has been a holy grail for me and was finally captured after many trips”. MICK RYAN, JUDGE: Iceland is a hotspot for aurora photography and this composition of the symmetric, free-standing Kirkjufell and the trident waterfall is much-sought after. If you can time your visit when the aurora “kp” index is high and know the settings for nighttime aurora images, you may end up with a beautiful photograph like this. (Photo by DВ/The Guardian)

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Cloud inversion taken at Sunrise in Mam Tor, Derbyshire, UK on August 30, 2016. (Photo by David Zdanowicz/REX Shutterstock)

A Garba (folk dance) participant gets her back painted with an awareness message on vaccination against the Covid-19 coronavirus during the ongoing Navratri festival in Ahmedabad in western India on October 8, 2021. (Photo by Sam Panthaky/AFP Photo)

A Palestinian man carries a lion cub as he shows it to children in Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on December 4, 2019. (Photo by Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

A woman takes photos as Mount Agung volcano sends up another plume of smoke, seen from the Kubu subdistrict in Karangasem Regency on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on July 5, 2018. Mount Agung roared to life again on July 2, belching a plume of ash 2,000 metres (6,500 feet) high, as well as temporarily shuttering the airport and grounding hundreds of flights after erupting the week before. (Photo by Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP Photo)

A man in a mock space suit experiences walking in space at “Mars Base 1 Camp” on May 15, 2023 in Jinchang, Gansu Province of China. The simulated Mars base allows visitors to immerse themselves in the Mars experience. (Photo by Li Yalong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)

Director Rian Johnson takes a photo of cast member Janelle Monae at the premiere for the film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, California, U.S., November 14, 2022. (Photo by Mario Anzuoni/Reuters)