Grasmere lake and village appears through swirling morning mist, Lake District Narional Park, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe

The sky appears on fire as dawn light seeps through the clouds beyond the Alderman Island and Coromandel Peninsula, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand, Pacific

Ice formed under pressure appears blue, Monaco glacier, Leifdefjorden, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

A rainbow appears looking east across the granite mountains of the Andringitra National Park, as a squall of rain blows in from the Indian Ocean, Southern Madagascar, Africa

A honeycomb eel emerges from its den and appears to smile, Maldives.

1 cm yellow tube polyp captured at 4.5x life size with what appears to be a small macroscopic Isopod feeding on it, Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands.

A red fox walks through the sand in the coastal area of Sandy Hook, New Jersey. He appears to gaze directly at the camera as he moves. The warm colors of fall foliage are blurred to the left. Photo taken shortly before sunset.

A red fox walks through the sand in the coastal area of Sandy Hook, New Jersey. He appears to gaze directly at the camera as he moves. Photo taken shortly before sunset.

Itsukushima Jinja, 16th century Shinto shrine, torii gate appears to float at high tide, UNESCO, Miyajimacho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Honshu, Japan

The moon appears behind the snowy mountains illuminating the peaks at sunset, Bondasca Valley, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, Europe

Itsukushima Jinja, 16th century Shinto shrine, torii gate appears to float at high tide, UNESCO, Miyajimacho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Honshu, Japan

Itsukushima Jinja, 16th century Shinto shrine, torii gate appears to float at high tide, UNESCO, Miyajimacho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Honshu, Japan

Itsukushima Jinja, 16th century Shinto shrine, torii gate appears to float at high tide, UNESCO, Miyajimacho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima, Honshu, Japan

A blue tram, travels along tram tracks in a city setting. Modern and older buildings flank the street, which appears wet in Birmingham, UK.

A small hill of gray bentonite clay that appears to be melting into the purple bentonite of Hamilili Valley on the south end of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, United States of America, North America

A small hill of gray bentonite clay that appears to be melting into the purple bentonite of Hamilili Valley on the south end of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, United States of America, North America

Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) appears to fly though the sky in reflected clouds, Azores, Portugal, Atlantic, Europe

A solitary mask dancer appears wearing a frightening mask and silk brocade. they circle the courtyard with sprightly leaps. called protectors of faith, or dharmapdla, the origins of figures like these can be traced back to the pre-aryan peoples of india. originally known as yaksas (literally, a wondrous thing), they were tree spirits, who were accepted by the buddhists as defenders of the faith. in nepal and tibet, as in india, local deities were converted into protectors. a devotee of an alien sect devised a means to humiliate the buddha and his disciples. the buddha discovered it and succeeded in converting him to his teaching. due to lack of wisdom, the buddha remarked, some could not realize the goodness of his disciples and he compared the ignorant to the blind and the wise to those who have eyes.nobody is condemned in buddhism, for greatness is latent even in the seemingly lowliest just as lotuses spring from muddy ponds. -the dhammapada. solu khumbu, nepal

dead man's fingers (codium galeatum), wild, dusk, shore diving, sand, marine park, metropolitan, Perth city, Western Australia, Indian Ocean. MORE INFO: spongy texture, the fronds divide regularly into two, and their surface appears fuzzy up to a metre long. Common in rough water areas.

Close up of lobster's face as it appears from it crevice. Malta

Short finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorynchus) Gulf of California.The eye of a baby pilot whale which appears to be weeping.

Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) reflected in the still waters this night of Crawling Lake in southern Alberta. A dim aurora at right colours the sky magenta. Lingering twilight colours the sky blue. A meteor or more likely a flaring satellite appears at right and is also reflected in the water. Even in this short exposure, the two tails ' dust and ion ' are visible. This was July 20, 2020.

Concepcion Ramirez is the woman Tzutujil appears on coins of 25 cents of Guatemala. Woman in traditional dress as profiled on 25 cent coin Santiago Atitlan Guatemala Central America.

The unusual STEVE auroral arc across the northern sky at Bow Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta on the night of July 16-17, 2018. The more normal green auroral arc is lower across the northern horizon. But STEVE here appears more pink.

An arc of Northern Lights appears in the evening twilight over Prelude Lake near Yellowknife, NWT, on September 9, 2019. The Big Dipper is at left. Capella is at right.

Approaching the speed of light, an object appears shorter, with a longer time interval, relative to its intervals when at rest.

Buddha appears in a lotus blossom, Buddha in a mechanically opening wooden lotus flower, Luohou Temple, Mount Wutai, Wutai Shan, Five Terrace Mountain, Buddhist Centre, town of Taihuai, Shanxi province, China

Picturesque huge rainbow appears in the water mist. The most popular waterfall in Iceland - Skogafoss. Water rushes down with a crash, forming a cloud of mist

A white van is parked in a giant dried lake bed at night under a starry, Milky Way sky with what appears to be a halo of light around the van.

A brown bear (Ursus arctos) standing upright among the sedges, appears to dance to music only it can hear overlooking McNeil Cove in Southwestern Alaska, Alaska, United States of America

A brown bear (Ursus arctos) standing upright among the sedges, appears to dance to music only it can hear overlooking McNeil Cove in Southwestern Alaska, Alaska, United States of America

A rainbow appears in the sky over a field of freshly rolled hay bales with fireweed in the foreground, Delta Junction, Alaska, United States of America

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Appears Through Fog Where It Crosses The Tanana River On A Subzero Morning, Alaska, United States Of America

Sunset glow on snow dusted Chugach Mountains with fall coloured foliage, Crescent Moon appears over mountain. Chugach State Park, South-central Alaska in autumn; Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America

Jesus Appears To Mary

A rainbow appears during a rainshower in tombstone territorial park in autumn, Yukon canada

At just two inches in length this appears to be the larval stage of a flounder. This image was captured a mile off the island of Yap at night with the bottom 1000+ feet below, Yap, Federated States of Micronesia

Agriculture - A rainbow appears to emanate from an old weathered barn / near Whitefish, Montana, USA.

Tara Oceans Expeditions - May 2011. diving Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus); Isabela Island; Galapagos, Ecuador; The Marine Iguana appears slow and clumsy on land, but this particular species of lizard is the only sea-going lizard in the world. However, it has to return the the land to breed.

Blue Dragon (Glaucus atlanticus) hanging. Small slug that measures only about 2 cm and is generally associated with the Portuguese man of war (Physalia physalis), although it also usually appears in intertidal pools. Marine invertebrates of the Canary Islands, Tenerife.

BLUE DRAGON (Glaucus atlanticus). Small slug that measures only about 2 cm and is generally associated with the Portuguese man of war (Physalia physalis), although it also usually appears in intertidal pools. Marine invertebrates of the Canary Islands, Tenerife.

Blue Dragon (Glaucus atlanticus). Small slug that measures only about 2 cm and is generally associated with the Portuguese man of war (Physalia physalis), although it also usually appears in intertidal pools. Marine invertebrates of the Canary Islands, Tenerife.