Capturing this picture of lightning striking near Blackpool Tower has earned Stephen Cheatley the UK Weather Photographer of the Year award 2018. (Photo by Stephen Cheatley/Bav Media)

Guests attend the Hollywood Forever 2023 Dia De Los Muertos Celebration at Hollywood Forever on October 28, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)

A man rides his bicycle as a wave crashes at La Libertad malecon on May 13, 2015. El Salvador emergency authorities has declared an orange alert along the Pacific coast due to a large swell that affected the Salvadoran coast. The swell originated from the extra-tropical storms that formed in New Zealand and the Southern hemisphere, according to El Salvador's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources. (Photo by Jose Cabezas/Reuters)

Andrew Ling's inspiring photographs showcase the splendor of the natural world, using people to highlight the beauty and scale of these epic landscapes. Each image features a person photographed from hundreds of feet away, seemingly insignificant in comparison to the breathtaking landscape that surrounds them – whether beneath gushing waterfalls, under millions of glittering stars or atop of gigantic cliffs. Andrew, 22, said, “I hope these images will help remind people how beautiful the world we live in is”. Here: Second Beach, La Push, Washington, March, 2015. (Photo by Andrew Ling/Caters News)

English television personality from Newcastle, known for being a cast member in the MTV reality series “Geordie Shore”, Chloe Ferry, 25, soaked up the sun in a thong latex bikini during her holiday in Portugal on May 28, 2021. (Photo by Backgrid USA)

American actress and singer Selena Gomez shared the first pictures from her Bachelorette party in the last decade of August 2025. The 33-year-old actress and singer shared photos on Instagram marking the occasion. (Photo by Instagram)

Renowned amphibian and reptile photographer Matthijs Kuijpers has released his first book, “Cold Instinct”. Kuijpers says the aim of the work is “for the viewer to abandon the fear and negative thoughts that often surround these animals”. What’s left is the bizarre beauty of these creatures in their simplest form – no backgrounds and no distractions. Here: Mossy frog (Theloderma corticale). (Photo by Matthijs Kuijpers/The Guardian)

A female Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighter stands near a security position in Sinjar, March 13, 2015. Women fighters at a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) base on Mount Sinjar in northwest Iraq, just like their male counterparts, have to be ready for action at any time. Smoke from the front line, marking their battle against Islamic State, which launched an assault on northern Iraq last summer, is visible from the base. Many of the women have cut links with their families back home; the fighters come from all corners of the Kurdish region. (Photo by Asmaa Waguih /Reuters)