Michael O’Neill won a prize in animal portraits with fry of a peacock bass hovering around their mother for protection against predators in South Florida. (Photo by Michael Patrick O'Neill/2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year)

“GoPro is a brand of the privately owned San Mateo, California company Woodman Labs that features “wearable” camera/camcorders such as helmet cameras that are targeted at adventure video/photography. Widely used by professionals and hobbyists”. – Wikipedia. Photo: “Skydiving fun in Miami by Ralph Turner. This is a shot I took yesterday at Skydive Miami during a fun jump with friend Dexter Marcelino”. (Photo by Ralph Turner)

Shortlisted: Pooyan Shadpoor, Houcheraghi. While walking along the shore of Larak, Iran – an island in the Persian Gulf – Shadpoor came across this luminous scene. The “magical lights of (the) plankton ... enchanted me so that I snapped the shot”, he writes. (Photo by Pooyan Shadpoor/2016 EPOTY)

Second place, Nature: double trapping. Picture taken in the Brazilian Pantanal ... when I downloaded the CF did not want to believe it ... The nature knows we always give magnificent events but sometimes extraordinary. (Photo by Massimiliano Bencivenni/National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest)

Flames and smoke rising after a fire that broke out in Izmir province of Aegean Turkey on August 19, 2019. Fire brigade crew continue their works. Forest fires have consumed some 500 hectares (over 1,200 acres) of land in Izmir, Turkeys Aegean coast. On Sunday, the fires broke out in four different regions – including two in the southwestern Mugla province and others in Izmir province, according to Agriculture and Forest Ministry. (Photo by Emin Menguarslan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

A woman drives a scooter with her dog in Hanoi on December 10, 2021, as Vietnamese officials in the central city of Hoi An announced it was set to be the country's first dog and cat meat free city. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)

Sha'carri Richardson of the U.S. readies herself for the start of heat 2 in the women's 200m at the World Athletics Championship at the National Athletics Centre, Budapest, Hungary on August 23, 2023. (Photo by Dylan Martinez/Reuters)

Instructor Raquel Potí leads a stilt walking workshop at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, January 27, 2024. Potí is chiefly responsible for the explosion of stilt walking in Rio, having trained more than 1,000 kids and adults over the past decade. (Photo by Silvia Izquierdo/AP Photo)