A participant wearing a fantasy costume poses for a picture during the Hero Festival in Marseille, France November 12, 2016. (Photo by Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)

A participant wearing a cosplay costume attends the Japan Expo in Marseille, France, February 22, 2019. (Photo by Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)

People visit a cemetery during the celebrations of the Guede, the traditional festival of the dead and one of the main festivities of voodoo, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 01 November 2020. (Photo by Jean Marc Herve Abelard/EPA/EFE)

Toyota driver Rainer Wissmans of Germany drives during the 2nd stage of the Dakar Rally 2015, from Villa Carlos Paz to San Juan January 5, 2015. (Photo by Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)

North Kenya, Liboi. A young Somali refugee crosses a field filled with marabous storks in July 1992. (Photo by Jean-Claude Coutausse)

Michael Olivant, a Times reader, saw a chance to contribute when a Dalmatian pelican landed on his wife’s head at Lake Kerkini in northern Greece in the first decade of February 2025. (Photo by Michael Olivant/The Times)

The contest began in 2007, and since then photographers from more than 70 countries have entered. Photo: Michael O'Neal of San Francisco won first place in the animals category in the 2014 iPhone Photography Awards. (Photo by Michael O'Neal)

Jean-Pierre Giagnoli walks through a crowded area of vendors hawking cat related goods at CatCon LA in Los Angeles, on Sunday, June 26, 2016. (Photo by Richard Vogel/AP Photo)