Maintenance engineer Darren Unsworth cleans one of the crystal Edwardian chandeliers that illuminate Blackpool Tower Ballroom on January 16, 2012 in Blackpool, England. Blackpool's famous Tower Ballroom is undergoing an annual spring clean which includes lowering the ornate chandeliers where each shard of crystal is cleaned for the coming season of dancing. The dance floor consisting of 30,602 blocks of mahogany, oak and walnut is also sanded and polished to give the perfect dance floor. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

“A skydiver has made history by smashing the world record for the highest skydive after leaping from 128,097ft (39,044m). Daredevil Felix Baumgartner ascended to the edge of space in a pressurised capsule suspended beneath a giant helium balloon. He then jumped out, freefalling for four minutes and 19 seconds before opening his parachute”.

Photo: Baumgartner celebrates after successfully completing the jump. (Photo by Balazs Gardi/Red Bull Stratos)

A 10-year-old boy living on the streets of New Delhi lies down on cascading water of a fountain in the gardens of the India Gate monument on May 20, 2016. The Indian Meteorological Department issued warnings of “severe heat wave” conditions across large parts of India's north and west, including the capital Delhi, where temperatures hit 47 degrees Celsius. (Photo by Roberto Schmidt/AFP Photo)

People row their canoes on a flooded street at a village in Kawlin township, Sagaing division, Myanmar, July 21, 2015. Heavy rains caused flooding over 20,000 acres of rice field and in about a hundred villages, killing at least eight people, according to local media. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)

The mystifying flow of motion. We can rarely appreciate its beauty. Though there are ways to capture it on film, allowing us to marvel at its complexity. Stephen Orlando is a photographer who takes pleasure highlighting the magnificence of aquatic sports by using the brilliance of light. The beauty of the images that he creates comes not only from the composition of the photo, but also from the way Stephen managed to show the color transitions between each stroke of the kayaker. Even the rapids do not stand in the way of the marvelous dance of light. (Photo by Stephen Orlando)