A young boy walks to his school bus on a foggy day in Dubai on March 14, 2024. (Photo by Chris Whiteoak/The National)

Attracting more than 450 entries from around the world, the winners are selected by a panel of expert judges including ZSL honorary conservation fellow and television presenter Kate Humble, and renowned ornithologist Bill Oddie. Here: Anoura Geoffroy’s tailless bat by Nicolas Reusens. The Perfect Moment category; Adult runner up. (Photo by Nicolas Reusens/ZSL Animal Photography Prize 2015)

The performers prepare for the show. Fontana, a travelling water circus produced by Cirque Du Liban at Festival City in Dubai. (Photo by Chris Whiteoak/The National)

A motorist drives a car through a flooded expressway in Brooklyn, New York early on September 2, 2021, as flash flooding and record-breaking rainfall brought by the remnants of Storm Ida swept through the area. (Photo by Ed Jones/AFP Photo)

A Palestinian man carries a lion cub as he shows it to children in Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on December 4, 2019. (Photo by Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

Model Bella Hadid poses on the red carpet of Rihanna's new Savage X Fenty collection show for New York Fashion Week at the Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., September 10, 2019. (Photo by Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)

Four men dressed as zombies participate in a Zombie Walk procession in the streets of Paris October 12, 2013. (Photo by Benoit Tessier/Reuters)

Sebastian Vettel of Germany and Red Bull Racing tries his hand at sheep shearing as he visits a local farm during previews to the Australian Formula One Grand Prix on March 23, 2011 in Melbourne, Australia.