This close-up image – of a Holi Festival celebrant in Vrindivan, India, coated in neon-colored powder – was submitted to National Geographic’s Your Shot in the last week of March. On April 1 we published it on our Daily News site, along with seven other bright scenes captured during the Hindu spring Festival of Colors. (Photo by Tinto Alencherry/National Geographic)

In this July 5, 2016 photo, a tamed elephant rests in a pool of water by a road in Baduraliya, a village outside Colombo, Sri Lanka. Even as the country cracks down on illegal ownership, the enduring demand for elephants has the government planning to set up its own pool of captive animals to be hired out to temples for ceremonies and maintained with budget funds. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)

A sign that reads “No more massacres LGBT” is seen to remember the victims of the Pulse nightclub mass shooting in Orlando, near the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, Mexico, June 14, 2016. (Photo by Edgard Garrido/Reuters)

Revellers out in Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2018. (Photo by Lorne Campbell/Guzelian)

These men are chased by the defiant elephants on May 4, 2013. Taken by Biplab Hazra in Bishnupur, India, the images show the extreme lengths the inhabitants of the town go to to deter elephants from damaging their crops and property. Elephants encroaching out of their habitats is an increasingly common occurrence with deforestation in much of India. (Photo by Biplab Hazra/Caters News Agency)

A villager harvests water chestnuts in Feijiadai Village, Zhejiang Province, China on September 20, 2019. (Photo by Huang Zongzhi/Xinhua News Agency/Barcroft Media)

A bus in New York City which careened off a road in the Bronx neighborhood of New York is left dangling from an overpass Friday, January 15, 2021, after a crash late Thursday that left the driver in serious condition, police said. (Photo by Craig Ruttle/AP Photo)

Mexico's Ledia Juarez competes in the gymnastics rhythmic individual hoop final at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Friday, November 3, 2023. (Photo by Esteban Felix/AP Photo)