A date palm tree grove and village fills a desert valley floor beneath jagged mountain peaks. slopes

A date palm tree grove and village fills a desert valley floor beneath jagged mountain peaks. slopesA date palm tree grove and village fills a desert valley floor beneath jagged mountain peaks. Wilayt Nakhal, Mount Nakhal, Al Batinah South Governorate, Sultanate of Oman.

Yellow lichens encrusting a red-oxide weathered cliff face

sharp beak and eye Alice Springs Desert Park

A Golden Jackal moves between Zebra grazing on the savannah

Bubbles and vortices swirl behind a Humpback Whale during a Heat Run

An excited young boy stands in a crowd at a football training camp

A barren featureless concrete prison yard wall topped with razor wire

A Buddhist monk chanting sanskrit words during a death ceremony in a Bhutanese home

Fresh bark peeled from the trunk of an Amazon rainforest tree for ease of cutting at a mill

A pink flaming wisp of cloud hangs over a granite outcrop on the savannah horizon

A bright orange sound barrier by a freeway

Throughout the vast arid regions of the Australian continent the chattering squawks of countless parrot species echo across the land

near Mission Beach