Participants lay down on a street covered by coloured powder during the annual Bangkok Color Run in Bangkok, Thailand April 1, 2017. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)

A group of colorful row houses are reflected on to the top of a black car parked on 3600 block of N street in the Georgetown section of Washington DC, February 16, 2017. (Photo by John McDonnell/The Washington Post)

An Indian Muslim worker applies colors on Kalavas (sacred threads) in Ajmer in the Indian state of Rajasthan on May 24, 2018. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/AFP Photo)

French aircrafts of the Patrouille de France spray colored smoke during a performance on the opening day of the Dubai Airshow in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, November 17, 2019. (Photo by Kamran Jebreili/AP Photo)

These spectacular landscapes may look like something from another planet – but they are in fact colorful salt ponds which stretch for miles. Despite being better known for tech companies and expensive property – San Francisco, California is also home to this vibrant quilt of color spanning the South Bay Area. From eerie green pools to gothic shades of red the surreal landscapes are caused by the organisms or micro-algae living within them. Photo: Aerial view of the salt ponds in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Cris Benton/Caters News)

A worker paints a santon, the typical figurines from Provence, at the Marcel Carbonel's Santon factory in Marseille, November 28, 2016. Santons are traditional hand-colored figurines usually set in Christmas Nativity scenes. (Photo by Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)

The workers dry the pipe papade made from seasoned and colored dough, during the containment imposed by the government as a preventive measure against COVID-19, in Agartala, the capital of the state of north-east India on May 5, 2020. (Photo by Abhisek Saha/Le Pictorium Agency via ZUMA Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Children wearing bear fur costumes dance during a parade in Comanesti, Romania, Friday, December 30, 2022. In pre-Christian rural traditions, dancers wearing colored costumes or animal furs, toured from house to house in villages singing and dancing to ward off evil. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)