Scaffolding supports the hull and stern during handmade construction of an ancient timber dhow. Calcarifera ordinata

Scaffolding supports the hull and stern during handmade construction of an ancient timber dhow. Calcarifera ordinataScaffolding supports the hull and stern during handmade construction of an ancient timber dhow. Sur, Ash Sharqiyah Region, Gulf of Oman, Sultanate of Oman.

A tourist photographs from the bridge of a ship heading to Antarctica

mast and tarpaulin sail of a wooden trimaran fishing dhow moored in the shallows

Coolibah trees and fresh grass growth after rare desert rains

A sunray touches a winding river snakes its way through a highland tundra valley

The turquoise waters of an alpine river flow from the Himalaya through a forested valley home of the White-bellied Heron

An Oriental Paper Wasp tending the brood cells of its nest in a palm

Custis-Lee Mansion

Dawn casts a halo around the wool of sheep on an vast Outback farm

Dawn rises over a red coastal sand dune casting shadows in the ripples Francois Peron National Park

The colorful facade of a suburban house in a portside artists' colony

A chicken sits proudly inside a mud hut home in Uganda

An iceberg carved from a glacier floating in the dark waters of an Arctic fjord