The ochre sandstone dome of Uluru rises from a vast desert plain in Australia's Outback. Barchan

The ochre sandstone dome of Uluru rises from a vast desert plain in Australia's Outback. BarchanThe ochre sandstone dome of Uluru rises from a vast desert plain in Australia's Outback. Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory, Australia.

Nail holes filled with putty and freshly oiled timber hull planks on a dhow under construction

An African Fish Eagle launches from a roost above a wetland

A close view of the head of an ocellated ridge-tailed monitor lizard

House roof construction in a new housing estate in a fishing town

Camels and jockeys stride below a deep blue Outback sky during a race

Pressure ridges in a glacier build up around an island in the Greenland Ice Sheet

A quilt of purple and orange clouds descends over the ocean at sunset

A fisherman poles his wooden trimaran dhow and bicycle through the shallows towards a reef

A clerid beetle feeds on nectar from a manuka flower

A flock of Lesser Flamingo feeding on a soda lake on the floor of a volcano caldera

fair-haired toddler

A yachts moored in a safe tropical harbour beneath a colonial estate