Firefall at Horsetail Fall, Yosemite National Park, California (© Gregory B Cuvelier/Shutterstock)

Kinder Scout at sunrise, Peak District National Park, England (© john finney photography/Getty Images)

Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC (© Steve Whiston/Fallen Log Photography/Getty Images)

Sperm whale pod surfacing, Dominica (© Franco Banfi/Minden Pictures)

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater rehearsing ‘Uptown,’ 2009, New York (© STAN HONDA/AFP via Getty Images)

Female pyrrhuloxia perched on cactus plant, Texas (© outtakes/Getty Images)

Hippopotamus mother and calf, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia (© Nature Picture Library/Alamy)

Red-crowned crane bowing to his mate in Hokkaido, Japan (© Steve Bloom Images/Alamy)

Mardi Gras beads in the Marigny, New Orleans (© Erik Pronske Photography/Getty Images)

Volcán Alcedo giant tortoises, Isabela Island, Galápagos, Ecuador (© Tui De Roy/Minden Pictures)