20-year-old women visit the the Meiji shrine in Tokyo, Japan to celebrate Japan's Coming of Age Day on January 6, 2017. (Photo by Aflo/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Underwater photographer Sarah Lee uses a technique known as “duck diving” to capture these stunning photos of surfers in Hawaii. Surfers “duck dive” under the water to avoid incoming waves so they can get further out to sea. Photo: A surfer comes free from her surfboard. (Photo by Sarah Lee/Caters News)

Young women wear kimonos to mark “Coming of Age Day” to honour people who turn 20 this year to signify adulthood, in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture on January 9, 2023. (Photo by Philip Fong/AFP Photo)

A spoonbill appears to creep across the sky as it comes in to land on a nearby branch in the Orlando Wetlands, Florida in the second decade of June 2024. (Photo by Deborah Sandidge/Solent News)

A woman reacts to the sun coming out of the clouds during the annual Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival on Fifth Avenue in New York City, New York, U.S. April 21, 2019. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Reuters)

Over the years a large population of grey herons have made an unlikely home in urban Amsterdam. Julie Hrudova documents how the birds integrate into city life. Here: Hundreds of herons come to the city during winter to find food and shelter. (Photo by by Julie Hrudova/The Guardian)

Australian singer/songwriter Delta Goodrem comes face-to-face for the first time with a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds in Sydney on April 11, 2012. Madame Tussauds, featuring wax doppelgangers of Dannii Minogue, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp and Lady Gaga, was officially open on April 16. (Photo by Ryan Pierse)

Starlings come home to roost on Brighton's Old Pier as the sun sets on December 21, 2011 in Brighton, England. December 21 marks the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)