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Fireworks show, Québec City, Canada

Hohenzollern Castle near Stuttgart, Germany

The Athabasca River in Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada

Red-crowned cranes in Akan National Park, Hokkaido, Japan

Colorful houses in Tromsø, Norway

Southampton Common, Southampton, England

Long-tailed tits on Asiatic bittersweet, Hokkaido, Japan

A red deer in the snow

A red fox resting, Vanoise National Park, Rhône-Alpes, France

Tangle Creek Falls, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

A European crested tit lands on a pine tree in France

A saguaro cactus decorated with lights in Arizona

A tree farm near Elmira, Idaho

Necklace sea star on a magnificent sea anemone near Sipadan Island, Borneo

Farolitos light the Inn and Spa at Loretto in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Sunset on a snowy field in Switzerland

Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

Black-headed night monkeys in Pacaya Samiria National Park, Peru

Inside Fromme-Birney round barn in Mullinville, Kansas

Landsat 8 satellite’s infrared photo of fields in Kazakhstan

A rural portion of Gmina Barczewo, Olsztyn County, Poland

Luminaria festival at Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

Climbers ascending Jungfrau, in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland

A pedestrian skyway in Hong Kong’s Wan Chai District, China

Aidlinger Hoehe, morning fog, Aidling, Pfaffenwinkel, Bavaria, Germany

A frozen waterfall in Korouoma, Finland

Semiconductor manufacturing at Infineon Technologies in Villach, Austria

Quinoa plants in Peru

Red grouse in the Scottish Highlands

Resurrection Bay at Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska (© Ron Niebrugge/Alamy)

Cierva Cove on the Antarctic Peninsula