Imposing residential developments overshadow their surroundings and a stark contrast to the lone tree, Central Sao Paulo area, Brazil, South America

Aerial of Sewell Mining Town, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Chile, South America

Isolated tree among sandstone rock formation in the desert canyons of the Ashar Valley, Medina Province, Saudi Arabia

A lone hawthorn tree in snow in the dead of winter, near Moretonhampstead, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, Great Britain.

Vienna, Austria ��� View of the Mariensv�ule, the 17th-century plague column standing before the Kirche am Hof, its gilded Virgin Mary statue contrasting with the church's stark Gothic facade on Am Hof square.

Brash ice chokes the Lemaire Channel on the west side of the Antarctic peninsula in Antarctica, Polar Regions

Icebergs from the Jokulsarlon glacial lagoon washed up on a nearby black volcanic sand beach from the North Atlantic Ocean, Iceland, Polar Regions

Lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor) flying above sand dunes near Walvis Bay, Namibia

Shadow of a long dead acacia tree across Deadvlei, Sossusvlei, Namib-Naukluft Park, Namibia

Pritzker Pavilion Chicago Illinois USA