
A 97-year-old woman waits for the bus in her Sunday best in Chamblee, Georgia.

The picture was shot at San Juan de los Remedios, Cuba, during a local celebration called “Las Parrandas” in which the highlight is fireworks. Here children light the fireworks and escape.

"Facing the Almighty”

Licancabur volcano is located on the border between Chile and Bolivia.

I was spending the fourth of July back in Nebraska, in the farmhouse where I grew up, and there were more fireflies that summer than I'd ever seen. I went out to the dirt road behind the house and shot this using a long exposure, just after sunset.

Driven by his great passion for landscaping, the photographer went out to the countryside as soon as he saw it was snowing. Driving around the region of Veneto, he found this abandoned train station at Feltre and was fascinated by its melancholic feel.

This peppermint shrimp is spending the day in a branching vase sponge about 75 feet deep in Bonaire's Margate Bay. Lighting was achieved with an HID torch shining on the outside of the sponge. The photographer, working upside down, had to carefully control buoyancy while approaching as close as possible, taking care not to touch the sponge with camera or light and to avoid disturbing the shrimp or the sponge.

The picture was taken in the Mala Mala Game reserve in South Africa: A young leopard cub was lounging alone on a tree when, suddenly, a male adult leopard arrived and attacked it. The cub tried to escape by jumping to another tree, but the branches were so dry that he fell to the ground. Slightly injured from the bite of the adult, the cub escaped running. Amirante was on a safari jeep when the cub fell about one meter from him.

A manatee photographed in Florida
