Modern and historic buildings line a waterway, viewed from a stone bridge. A slanted modern apartment building is a focal point, flanked by taller, older structures and a brick warehouse. Cloudy sky provides contrast in Manchester, UK.

Two men working together to weave a complex double ikat Patola sari using a harness loom slanted to one side, Patan, Gujarat, India, Asia

Housing estate and business center, Gasometer with Schild annex, Vienna, Austria

Slanted sculptures - Reisende Riesen im Wind - of artist Martin Wolke in front of Westerland railway station, Sylt, Schleswig Holstein, Germany

Solar panels on a red tiled roof

Labour court, science park (Wissenschaftspark) Rheinelbe, IBA International Building Fair Emscherpark, Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Labour court, science park (Wissenschaftspark) Rheinelbe, IBA International Building Fair Emscherpark, Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Labour court, science park (Wissenschaftspark) Rheinelbe, IBA International Building Fair Emscherpark, Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Labour court, science park (Wissenschaftspark) Rheinelbe, IBA International Building Fair Emscherpark, Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

SUV climbing rock, Akakus, Acacus Mountains or Tadrart Acacus, Sahara desert, Fezzan, Libya, North Africa

Schnoor Quarter, old part of town, Bremen, Germany

Tips of wooden barges in the water, using the example of punting barges on the banks of the Neckar in Tuebingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, symbolic image, Europe

Town hall, Klodzko, Glatz, Lower Silesia, Lesser Poland or Malopolska, Poland, Europe, PublicGround

Pouring champagne

One of the modern towers Torres Kio or Puerta de Europa, at the Paseo de la Castellana, Plaza de Castilla, Madrid, Spain, Europe

Sailing yacht with a strong inclination, Gedser, Falster, Denmark, Europe

Sign: Berlin City Tour, Berlin, Germany

Citadelle of Karim Khan, Shiraz, Fars, Persia, Iran, Asia

Coat of arms with the Mecklenburg bull's head and the Saxon coat of arms, mosaic on Wiligrad castle, built between 1896 and 1898, Luebstorf, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Europe

Paalwoningen, cube houses or pole dwellings, Helmond, North Brabant, Holland, Netherlands, Europe

Cocktail

Historic half-timbered buildings, Quedlinburg city, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Europe

Modern office building Dockland, Edgar-Engelhard-Kai, Hamburg, Germany

Road

View of a boy climbing a slanted palm tree on Maracas Beach, Trinidad, Caribbean

A weatherworn house in the town of Castries, St. Lucia

Downhill mountain biker rides the Big Spruce Trail at Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, Alaska June 2011.

Downhill mountain biker rides the Big Spruce Trail at Alyeska Resort in Girdwood, Alaska June 2011.

Man skiing, USA, Montana, Whitefish

USA, Montana, Car buried in snow