An ornate stone minaret towers over the dome of the Prayer Hall of the Grand Mosque at sunset. Tawny eagles

An ornate stone minaret towers over the dome of the Prayer Hall of the Grand Mosque at sunset. Tawny eaglesAn ornate stone minaret towers over the dome of the Prayer Hall of the Grand Mosque at sunset. Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

Primeval mountain peaks covered by forest rise above the savannah

Little Sahara National Park

Lincoln Memorial marble Greek Doric columns rise into a blue sky

School children yelling goodbye from their classroom window

Outback western New South Wales

The first rains of the wet season pour down on a parched grassland

Curry Wattle tree seeds

The trunks and canopy of River Red Gums lining a forest stream

A desert succulent emerges from rippled sands on a windswept dune

Frog spawn from a Foam-nest Tree Frog hanging from a branch over a wetland waiting to hatch

Tourists photograph historical prison museum sites from a tour bus

A menacing storm above an Antarctic research science laboratory