Gemsbok (Oryx gazella) sheltering from the midday sun in the NamibRand Nature Reserve, Namib Desert, Namibia, Africa

Heliostats reflecting sun rays, solar energy scientific research centre, AORA Tulip System, Tabernas, Almeria, Andalusia, Spain, Europe

Backlight in the waters around Axel Heiberg island, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic, Canada, North America

View of Oslo City Hall and fountain on a sunny day, Oslo, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

White-backed vultures (Gyps africanus) and a Black-backed jackal (Canis mesomelas) feed on an African elephant (Loxodonta africana), Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana, Africa

A waterfall backlit by the midday sun, in a gorge in Bossiney Haven, near Tintagel, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Alley of trees in winter, Swabian Jura, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe

Plains zebra (Equus quagga) drinking at waterhole, Nxai Pan National Park, Botswana, Africa

Guadalupe fur seal (Arctocephalus townsendi), at new haul out on Las Animas Island, Baja California Sur, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, North America

A herd of Common Plains Zebra (Grant's) by the salt pan of Lake Magadi in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

A herd of Common Plains Zebra (Grant's) by the salt pan of Lake Magadi in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

The midday sun casts its light across a row of medieval houses at Arlington Row, Bibury in Gloucestershire, Cotswolds, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Ski touring person directly under the sun with ski sticks yellow jacket in a winter landscape wirh snow and blue sky at the Scheinbergspitze close to castle Linderhof in Germany