A river fish called Ayu stuffed with rice is called Ayu Mesi served at Kaiseki, a traditional multi-course Japanese dinner. Sheet and striped

A river fish called Ayu stuffed with rice is called Ayu Mesi served at Kaiseki, a traditional multi-course Japanese dinner. Sheet and stripedA river fish called Ayu stuffed with rice is called Ayu Mesi served at Kaiseki, a traditional multi course Japanese dinner. Unryu Onsen, Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Preparing and squeezing kava to drink at a traditional ceremony

Serengeti NP

satin snow-covered surface of a large iceberg before a descending storm

An African Elephant emerges from the enveloping darkness of the veldt to drink at a dwindling waterhole

A pilgrim on the steps of a bathing ghat on the Ganges River at dawn

50 kilometres southeast of Bhavnagr

Pink Palace's sandstone windows

Dead date palms lying in an abandoned desert village after the water and well dried up

A tree in the Coongie Lakes wetlands reflected on the water's surface

dry grasses turn golden as sunset falls over farmland

The soft pink face and chest feathers of a Major Mitchell's Cockatoo

An aerial view of a herd of Grant's Zebra migrating and grazing in a snaking line on the vast short grass savannah plain at dawn