Overlooking the Sydney Opera House from Harbor Bridge after a rainstorm. March 2019.

Demonstrators call for stronger climate protection measures outside City Hall in Sydney, Australia, during the height of the 2019 bushfire crisis. December, 2019

An aerial view of Manly Cove and Manly Beach.

A fisherman casts a line into the winter Tasman Sea from Manly, NSW.

Terraced rice farms in China’s Guangxi province draw flocks of tourists around harvest time each year. Despite their popularity, the scale of the region still offers some serene strolls through the verdant hills.

Rainbow lorikeets are common in the wild along Australia’s eastern coast. They mostly mate and remain monogamous for life. Photographed at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, 2019.

A demonstrator calls attention to the plight of wildlife during the 2019 bushfire crisis in Sydney, Australia. December 2019

A small Shinto shrine stands isolated in the center of a rice field at sunset. A group of swans on their annual migration pass by overhead.

Pedestrians pass under a bridge in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

A young woman uses her cell phone to snap a photo of a Buddhist arhat statue carved into the seaside cliffs of northern Yamagata Prefecture. The "16 Buddhas" have gazed out over the Sea of Japan since 1864, when an enterprising young priest completed the project with donations from residents of neighboring Sakata City.

Children wearing shishigashira masks in the form of a lion's head, Sakata City's traditional symbol, march in a parade for the city's annual festival.

The Benbulben is a large rock formation in County Sligo, Ireland, part of the Dartry Mountains. Braving a short and soggy climb and resident sheep rewards hikers with a bucolic view over the coastal Sligo plain and the Atlantic ocean. The poet William Yates wrote of his own death, “Under bare Ben Bulben's head; In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid… Cast a cold eye; On life, on death.; Horseman, pass by!”

Sonoma, California

Flags spring from under the eaves of Jiming Temple, one of the oldest Buddhist temples in Nanjing, China.

An hour north of Sapporo, Japan, the town of Otaru harbors a vibrant artisan community famous for glass blowing, clockwork music boxes, fresh seafood and a canal walkway that hosts an annual snow lantern festival.

Blackstone Bay, Alaska

Row upon row of tubular plastic greenhouses incubate the musk melons that are a specialty of family farms in the coastal Shonai region of Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

Winters on the West coast of Honshu are infamous throughout Japan for their harshness. In the Shonai region of Yamagata Prefecture, fierce wind-driven snowstorms known as Jifubuki (地吹雪) sweep the snow from the ground into the sky, clearing dormant rice fields along the banks of the Akagawa River.

A bull moose ranges in Chugach State Park, outside Anchorage Alaska during autumn rut.

Momiji leaves light up hillsides near Yudonosan shrine, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.

The "Undoukai" is a highly anticipated annual sports event at public schools throughout Japan. The school is divided across age groups into three teams that compete in team-building games and events such as relay and 3-legged races. The day culminates in competitive cheering displays of school spirit full of choreographed cheer squads and human pyramids.

Sandpipers hunt for breakfast on the shoreline, Pacific City, Oregon

Anchorage, Alaska