Landscape second place: Denis Ferreira Netto, Brazil. “In a helicopter flight through the sea mountain range, I came across this white cloud cover, which resulted in this magnificent image that resembles the head of a dinosaur”, the photographer said. (Photo by Denis Ferreira Netto/TNC Photo Contest 2021)

An aerial view of the figure of a Catrina skull made with 18,000 Cempasuchil flowers (Mexican marigold) is on display at the Church of Santa Prisca as part of Day of the Dead celebrations, in Taxco, Mexico on October 27, 2021. (Photo by Daniel Cardenas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A man in Yakutsk, the capital of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in the Russian Far East on November 23, 2021. Located in Tuimaada Valley on the Lena River, Yakutsk is the largest city in the permafrost zone. On 23 November 2021, the daytime temperature ranged between –35 and –31 degrees Celsius in Yakutsk. On the night between 22 and 23 November, the temperature went down to –37 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Vadim Skryabin/TASS)

The trailer of an articulated lorry juts into the air after the vehicle came off a bridge on Interstate 81 southbound in Butler Township in Pennsylvania, US on November 9, 2021. (Photo by Sean McKeag/AP Photo)

An Afghan hawker selling balloons walks along a path in a ground in Chaman-e-Hozori area in Kabul on December 10, 2021. (Photo by Ahmad Sahel Arman/AFP Photo)

A Capetonian watches the sun rise from the top of Signal Hill as smoke engulfs the city of Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday April 20, 2021. A massive fire spreading on the slopes of the city's famed Table Mountain, at right, is kept under control as firemen and helicopters take advantage of the low winds to contain the blaze. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)

People react following the verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, found guilty of the death of George Floyd, at BLM Plaza in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 20, 2021. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)

People ride on a front loader as they make their way through floodwaters following heavy rainfall in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China on July 23, 2021. (Photo by Aly Song/Reuters)