1336-1115 - Several stone lanterns positioned together in the midst of a forest in Nara in autumn, Japan.

1336-1108 - Several stone lanterns positioned together in the midst of a forest in Nara, Honshu, Japan, Asia

832-386281 - Hikers in the midst of a herd of cows on the ascent to the summit of the Geigelstein, Sachrang, Chiemgau, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

911-10317 - A dried up lake at Tehachapi Pass, California, USA. California is in the midst of a four year long drought.

911-10318 - A dried up lake at Tehachapi Pass, California, USA. California is in the midst of a four year long drought.

832-208427 - Memorial Guenter Litfin for the first person shot dead at the Berlin Wall, Kieler Strasse street at the Berlin-Spandau Schifffahrtskanal channel, Berlin, Germany, Europe

832-208420 - Memorial Guenter Litfin for the first person shot dead at the Berlin Wall, Kieler Strasse street at the Berlin-Spandau Schifffahrtskanal channel, Berlin, Germany, Europe

832-208421 - Memorial Guenter Litfin for the first person shot dead at the Berlin Wall, Kieler Strasse street at the Berlin-Spandau Schifffahrtskanal channel, Berlin, Germany, Europe

832-191990 - Messy room, student room with a guitar

832-152787 - Pele& Castle in Sinaia, Carpathian Mountains, Romania, Europe

832-153176 - Football fans on tribune lighting fireworks

832-153175 - Football fans on tribune lighting fireworks

832-138131 - Lighthouse in Lake Constance with view to the mountain chain of the Alps in evening sky, Konstanz, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

832-137594 - Love Parade 2010, spray chalk outline of a person killed in a stampede, Duisburg, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

832-137595 - Love Parade 2010, spray chalk outlines of two people killed in a stampede, Duisburg, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

832-137590 - Loveparade 2010, huge crowds celebrate before many revellers are crushed to death in tragic tunnel accident, Duisburg, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany, Europe

832-137591 - Loveparade 2010, a float called "Tunnel", huge crowds celebrate before many revellers are crushed to death in tragic tunnel accident, Duisburg, Ruhr Area, North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany, Europe

832-126690 - Flooded grassland on the Elbe river near Dessau at sunrise, Mittlere Elbe biosphere reserve, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Europe

832-126691 - Flooded grassland on the Elbe river near Dessau at sunrise, Mittlere Elbe biosphere reserve, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Europe

832-126692 - Tree on flooded grassland on the Elbe river near Dessau at sunrise, Mittlere Elbe biosphere reserve, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Europe

832-125465 - Common puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum)

832-121547 - Replica of a portrait of a young man, thought to be Nero, midst of 1st century, original in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Museo della Civilta Romana, Rome, Latium, Italy, Europe

832-104414 - Schloss Waldeck Castle, Edersee lake, Kellerwald National Park, North Hesse, Germany, Europe

832-91436 - Trunk of a Beech (Fagus) tree in the middle of Yellow Wood Anemones (Anemone ranunculoides) in the morning

1116-37693 - Hawaii, Maui, Jason Polakow in midst of huge crashing waves, one curls above, action

1116-19424 - Old abandoned red barn in the midst of a canola field, rural Saskatchewan

832-28166 - Mountaingorillas (Gorilla beringei), Virunga National Park, Zaire, Africa

832-28588 - European edible frog, waterfrog (Rana esculenta) hiding in the water between Common duckweeds (Lemna minor), camouflage

1190-471 - Oak tree in midst of wheat field, hill countryside, agricultural landscape, spring, tuscany, italy

1194-4 - SYRIA Maalula, the last remaining village in Syria where Aramaic is still spoken. This is not part of Wadi al-Nasarah, being a 150 kilometers to the south, but is nevertheless interesting as the majority of the population are Christians, who enjoy the Convent and shrine of saint Tecla being in their midst

832-3934 - Tiger (Panthera tigris) in the dry grasses of the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India, Asia

832-6091 - Common Frog (Rana temporaria), in the midst of spawn

817-208051 - Seven spot ladybird climbs a leaf in midst of yellow crocus Coccinella septempunctata The beetle has raindrops glistening on her back from an overnight rainfall Yellow crocus of early spring The beetles just came out of hibernation under the crocu