857-34009 - Uzbek women peek out from their veils in front of the tiled wall of the Blue Mosque, Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh Province. The Blue Mosque is considered to be one of the most important and beautiful buildings in Afghanistan. The region around Mazar-i-Sharif is the center of the Uzbek tribe in Northern Afghanistan
979-5345 - Mother polar bear (Ursus maritimus) with two coy (cubs-of-year) on multi-year ice floes in the Barents Sea off the eastern side of Heleysundet in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway