A view of the Grand Canal opening out into the lagoon seen from the Ponte de l'Accademia with Palazzo Franchetti (Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti) on the left, and Basilica of Santa Maria de la Salute in the background, Venice, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Veneto, Italy, Europe

Burned out tree on the left with Sunset Crater Volcano in the background, near Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, North America

Woman sorting fresh fish catch, spread out on coir matting and left in the sun to dry, Pamban Straits, Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia

Air drying fish heads in Iceland. In this traditional food production process they are left hanging from poles until fully dried out.

The idea of the interconnectedness of all things is central to the tribal way of looking at the world. practical knowledge of the environment, of crops and medicines, of hunting and fishing, is a byproduct of it. the makuna believe that human beings, animals, and all of nature are parts of the same one. animals and fish live in their own communities, which are just like human communities, with their chiefs, their shamans, their dance houses, their songs, and their material possessions. when human peoples dance in this world, the shaman invites the animal people to dance in theirs. if humans do not dance and shamans do not offer spirit food to the animal people, the animals will die out and there will be no more game left in the world. for the makuna the radical disjunction so characteristic of western thought between nature and culture, men and animals, dissolves. eastern colombia amazon, vaupes region, population: 600

The Northern Lights on Feb 16, 2015, as seen from the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, in Churchill, Manitoba at 58° latitude, and under the auroral oval. The aurora appeared as skies cleared somewhat during a blizzard with high winds and blowing snow conditions. I shot these from the second floor deck of the Centre, out of the wind and off the ground. Jupiter is at right, the Big Dipper at left.

Comet Holmes, 17P, taken Nov 1, 2007 on excellent night. Taken with A&M 105mm apo refractor at f/5 with Borg 0.85x compressor/field flattener on SkyWatcher HEQ5 mount. Canon 20Da camera at ISO400. Composite of 4 min, 2min, 1min, 30sec, 15sec, and 7 sec exposures, each exposure being a stack of 3 to 4 identical exposures. Registered and stacked in Photoshop (HDR mode did not produce usable result, so manually composited with sucessively smaller masks to reveal short exposure content around nucleus. Contrast exaggerated with Curves to bring out very faint tail structure. North up, so tail to the S and SW.Nucleus is dot at upper left of inner coma, other star in inner coma at right is a field star

Desert Erg Iguidi, Algeria, True Colour Satellite Image. True colour satellite image of Erg Iguidi, a sand desert between Algeria and Mauritania. The 250m wide dunes lay in the South on a sand plain, and in the North on a blakek sandstone area. The light blue areas are calcareous and salt crusts left out from the evaporation of the oueds' water. Image taken on 29 March 1987 using LANDSAT data.

Meander or bend of the Rhine River at Boppard, left, Boppard, Rhein-Hunsrueck-Kreis district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe

Druze village of Majdal Shams, middle left the "Shouting Hill" from where the people from the Syrian side shout over to their relatives in the Israeli-occupied village, Golan Heights, Mount Hermon, Israel, Syria, Middle East, Southwest Asia

Ostrich (Struthio camelus) . Female on the left and male on the ridge of a grass-grown sand dune. Behing them a chick. Kalahari Desert, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa, Africa

Cairns on the hiking trail, Glacier du Tour, glacier and mountain peaks, high alpine landscape, left Aiguille du Chardonnet, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France, Europe

Delicate Arch, left, and the distant La Sal Mountains, framed by another small arch, Arches National Park, Utah, USA

Head out of marble, new forum at Leptis Magna

Head out of marble, new forum at Leptis Magna

Cologne Cathedral, left the Museum Ludwig, Hohenzollernbruecke bridge on the right, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

View from the tower of Geyerswoerth Schloss Geyerswoerth castle, Geyerswoerthstrasse 1, on the city, in the left back the St. Michael church and in front the old town hall, Bamberg, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

View from the tower of Geyerswoerth Schloss Geyerswoerth castle, Geyerswoerthstrasse 1, on the city, in the back left the Neue Residenz palace, in the upper right the St. Michael church, Bamberg, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

View of the principality of Monaco on the coast of the Cote d'Azur, from left, Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort, high-rises of Monte Carlo and behind Monaco-Ville, Principality of Monaco, Europe

View from the tower of Geyerswoerth Schloss Geyerswoerth castle, Geyerswoerthstrasse 1, on the city with the cathedral left, Neue Residenz palace, in the back the St. Michael church and in the right front the old town hall, Bamberg, Upper Franconia, Bavar

View from the castle over Heidelberg, left the Jesuit Church, right, the Holy Ghost Church and the Neckar River, Schlosshof, Heidelberg, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

Downtown, with the philharmonic hall, bottom left, Aalto Theater, Opera, EVONIK headquarters and RWE Tower administrative building, right, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Hijras (left to right) Sajjda, Gori and Neeli get dressed before heading out to go begging on the streets

Two climbers dig out their tent after a snowstorm covered them in 14k camp on Mount McKinley, Alaska. Climbers are advised to spare no expense on a expedition-quality tent as it can mean the difference between life and death during a ferocious storm on Denali. Extra poles and repair materials are important in case of damage caused by storms. Plan to take extra pickets, wands or deadmen for tent anchors. Never leave a tent without anchoring it securely. Tents are lost each year due to sudden gusts of wind while the tent was left unattended or drying. Every climbing season High Mountain Rangers of the Denali National Park Service are called to help climbers in need. If possible the patient is brought down to base camp on foot, only in life threatening conditions a helicopter is called to evacuate the patient to a hospital in Anchorage.

Night scene of a dining tent at the Everest Base Camp. The summit of Everest is blocked by part of the ridge that extends out on the left, while Nupste can be seen on the right of the picture. The infamous Khumbu ice fall can be seen as the rubble that pours out in the middle of the picture, Nepal

USA/CA/Santa Monica/Pier/September 2007:Santa Monica Pier - a landmark in the USA. A surfer (with board, hat and water bottle) walks down the Pier having left the beach front on a warm late summer's afternoon. The beach front Police Station on the Pier adjacent to the carnival rides. The Pier dates from 1909 and still draws in the crowds. It's a nonstop sideshow of activity with street performers, amusement arcade, aquarium, rollercoaster, ferris wheel and the 1922 Looff Hippodrome Carousel (featured in The Sting). It leaves you wondering how all this fits on just one pier. Glorious views out over the beach front and coastline to be had, especially from the ferris wheel.

A mountain ranger is digging out tents after a snowstorm covered them during the night in 14k camp on Mount McKinley, Alaska. Climbers are advised to spare no expense on a expedition-quality tent as it can mean the difference between life and death during a ferocious storm on Denali. Extra poles and repair materials are important in case of damage caused by storms. Plan to take extra pickets, wands or deadmen for tent anchors. Never leave a tent without anchoring it securely. Tents are lost each year due to sudden gusts of wind while the tent was left unattended or drying. Every climbing season High Mountain Rangers of the Denali National Park Service are called to help climbers in need. If possible the patient is brought down to base camp on foot, only in life threatening conditions a helicopter is called to evacuate the patient to a hospital in Anchorage.

A family, two adults and a young baby among rows of bright yellow, green and orange pumpkins harvested and left out to dry off in the fields in autumn, England, United Kingdom

Rows of bright yellow, green and orange pumpkins harvested and left out to dry off in the fields in autumn, England, United Kingdom

Rows of bright yellow, green and orange pumpkins harvested and left out to dry off in the fields in autumn, England, United Kingdom

Padlock on a barn door