Central Park Autumn colors frame Central Park’s lake as two people row beneath skyscrapers. The contrast of vibrant foliage and dramatic city skyline captures a peaceful moment in New York. #central #fall #park Photo Jeffrey Barsky Photo of the Day: 04.05.26 Smithsonian Magazine

Arab Spring uprisings Cairo, 2011 Guillaume Binet, has managed the agency since 2005, writes: ‘I believe in polyphony. I don’t think you can achieve much on your own . Photography is very subjective, but a sum of subjectivities can be an attempt at objectivity’ Photograph: Guillaume Binet/MYOP

Good Morning Wehrheim, Germany A stork with her four chicks Photograph: Michael Probst/AP/Guardian

Tranquility : No more words needed Cumbria, UK ‘Supporting my daughter on a 30-mile run over the Lakeland fells gave me the chance to capture the early morning tranquility of beautiful Buttermere.’ Photograph: Neil Braithwaite : Guardian Readers Best Pictures

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Mecca, Saudi Arabia Muslim pilgrims visit Mount al-Noor – where Muslims believe Muhammad received the first words of the Qur’an through Gabriel in the Hira cave – before hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca Photograph: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters/Guardian

Colchester, UK ‘Showing off the Beth Chatto Gardens’ beautiful design by using the foliage and textures to frame the person as they walk the bridge over the pond.’ Photograph: Daniel Goody Guardian Readers Best Photos

You cannot fail to be inspired by Scotland. Photograph: Ed Cargill Castle Roy, Nethy Bridge, UK ‘I was visiting my auntie in the Highlands and she said we had to go and see a certain Murdo. Turns out Murdo was this beautiful Highland cow!’ Photograph: Ed Cargill: Guardian Readers Best Pictures

The Cockroach by Ian McEwan features a cockroach that wakes up inside the body of the British Prime Minister. The CJP is a political online movement, yet, buried in the humour are recognisable claims: accountability, media reform, electoral transparency and expanded representation for women.

Love Bees 🐝🐝🐝Wednesday, May 20, 2026, roughly 30 Greenpeace activists staged a major blockade at the Syngenta UK headquarters in Huddersfield. The group used 15 blue pesticide barrels to lock themselves together, effectively blocking all three site gates and stopping all vehicle traffic.

Murshda, who lives in an orphanage in Sri Lanka, dreams of leaving the orphanage one day and becoming a nurse after finishing school #dream Photo Taken: 10.2024 Uploaded: 12.2025 Location: Trincomalee, Sri Lanka Camera: NIKON D850 Photo Mehmet Aslan Smithsonian Magazine 23rd Annual Photo Contest

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There will be people who say ‘It cannot done’ - Do it anyway The English community that brought its river back from the brink: 'If we can get it right here, we can do it everywhere' 'A noisy river is a healthy river,” says Ruth Needham of the Trent Rivers Trust (TRT). Guardian

Tåsinge, Denmark ‘Adjacent to Valdemars Slot, the sky was developing into something spectacular.’ Photograph: David Whitfield / Guardian Readers best pictures

Anger, curiosity and hope’: a planet full of protest – a world full of confrontations with authoritarian power. Matthew Connors’ new book shares the story ; suddenly anything is possible again and another way of being came into view Image; Night Swim, Pyongyang, 2016 / Guardian

From Basket Weaving to Oyster Reef Conservation, Gullah Geechee Women Are Preserving a Living Heritage Along America’s southeastern coast, descendants of enslaved Africans pass down traditions and knowledge of crafts, ecology and food through generations : Article from ; Smithsonian Magazine

The Stretch Before the Storm A cheetah stretches atop a mound after several, moments before rain swept across the Mara. The tension between its exhaustion and the dramatic sky reveals the fragile balance of survival in the wild. #cheetah #kenya Photo Riznad Hussain / Smithsonian Magazine

2rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest | Artistic The last house. The Armenian cemetery of Tehran. #house Photo Location: Tehran, Iran Photograph Mohammad Vahid Nasseri

How an Orkney garden healed a writer. Following her sisters death after canoeing accident, Victoria Bennett left Cumbria for the remote Scottish archipelago, where she learned to go with the flow of life. “The coastline showed me if it would grow wild, it would grow in the garden.” Guardian

How one man’s environmental mission inspired others to support him after his story was shared. Steve Green is on a mission to haul 166 forgotten, disintegrating fibreglass yachts out of the beautiful, secret creeks of Cornwall’s Helford and Fal rivers : Guardian

People will say it’s impossible - Do it anyway Australia’s best blind bowlers compete for glory on the green – at the Australian Blind Bowlers Association’s national championships at the Tweed Heads bowling club – now known as Club Tweed – in northern New South Wales Guardian Org

The Indigenous village of Bajo Chiquito, Panama, a former way station for migrants, experienced a boom because of migration through the Darien Gap, but immigration crackdowns stemmed the flow of migrants, and government migration camps have closed Omar Ornelas | El Paso Times | Pulitzer Center

Ogoh-ogoh are typically paraded at carnivals and parades. These fish ogoh-ogoh are created by rural communities who rely on aquaculture as their primary source of income, and therefore, fish are a symbol of pride. #culture #indonesia #people #tradition Photograph: Indra Gumilar Prasetya

Expect the people who tell you it can’t be done - Do it anyway Australias finest blind bowlers play for glory Picture credit the Guardian

Change is coming Falmouth, UK Surfers Against Sewage lead their nationwide Paddle-Out protest. More than 50 simultaneous actions targeted the government’s clean water bill and demanded an end to sewage pollution Photograph: Hugh R Hastings/Getty Images/Guardian

You choose what good you bring to the world … a soldier of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery shepherds a mum and her ducklings out of the line of fire of a 41-gun royal salute, in Hyde Park, London Photograph: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images/Guardian

A day of protests in London Demonstrators at the Nakba 78 March for Palestine called for an end to UK support for Israel and protested against the Unite the Kingdom rally taking place at the same time Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP/ Guardian

2026 Taylor Kidd’s work interweaves photography, memory, belonging, and the passage of time, in a world where I felt walls were crumbling, I began to reconnect with the beauty of the world around me.’ Photograph: Alta Vista Arts; Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award 2026 – Guardian

Pose for photos, Gagra, Abkhazia, 2013 MYOP was founded by photographers who wanted to create a collaborative platform for documenting the world. Julien Pebrel, who took this image, says: ‘I’ve never really been a photographer outside MYOP. I learned everything there’ Photograph: Julien Pebrel/MYOP

Buried Treasure (series), UK, 2024 Ed Alcock: ‘MYOP is a source of inspiration, a shelter in the storm. It’s a place where we share ideas, argue, make up, eat, share a beer, together, It’s joyful. It’s frustrating. It’s imperfect’ Photograph: Ed Alcock/MYOP/Guardian

Real is rare. Indian Land (series), United States, 2016 In the face of overwhelming information, accelerating artificial intelligence and the might of virtual communities that devour and regurgitate visual content, MYOP firmly stands its ground Photograph: Zen Lefort/MYOP/Guardian

Maasai Mara, the sky was thick with clouds, but for a brief moment a soft beam of red-tinted light broke through and gently illuminated the mother resting beside her young. #lioness #cubs #kenya #sunrise Photo ; Yoshiki Nakamura : Smithsonian Magazine

Catching the sunrise at Tunnel View, made famous by Ansel Adams, has become a signature experience when visiting Yosemite National Park. William Senter, 2023 Smithsonian Magazine

The Socorro dove has not been recorded in the wild since 1972, but that could change within only a few years, thanks to a decades long-term reintroduction effort This Socorro dove recently hatched at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Smithsonian Magazine

The community of Dunoy releases a young crocodile into a creek near the Disulap River. The release marks the final step of a conservation initiative designed to help hatchlings survive and rebuild the Philippine crocodile population. Giacomo d’Orlando The global Walk of Water photography contest

The global Walk of Water photography contest reflect the intimate connection between water and humanity. Malaysia : Two Bajau Laut girls wear borak. Known as sea nomads, the Bajau use this traditional paste made from turmeric and rice as a beauty treatment and shield against the sun Guardian

A large group of gentoo penguins returns from foraging at sea, elegantly moving to their colony on land. German Nature Society GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026, Lars von Ritter Zahony

How a kindergarten teacher became the accidental guardian of 200 king penguins When the birds started nesting on her land at Useless Bay, Chile, Cecilia Durán Gafo decided she would protect them from people and predators Douwe den Held. Photographs by Anastasia Austin theguardian.org

CornishStuff.com The chough - charismatic corvid with red feet and beak - are back at Tintagel Castle where the legend began, tied for centuries to the soul of King Arthur, after disappearing decades ago. Win Scutt, English Heritage Curator, said: “A rare moment where nature and myth seem to meet.”

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

An aerial view of Alberobello, capturing the church rising above the landscape and the iconic Trulli surrounding it, forming a unique pattern of conical roofs. #church #italy Photo Leonardo Gerzon Pontis / Smithsonian Magazine

One-celled algae called diatoms are unique because their cell walls are made of transparent silica, allowing their internal patterns to be visible. Diatoms are key producers of atmospheric oxygen and uphold the aquatic food chain. Jan Rosenboom, Evident Image of the Year 2026 / Smithsonian Magazine

Stockholm, Sweden Children watch young sea trout being released through a pipe as part of a conservation project. This year, 10,000 fish will be released in a key waterway in the city and 150,000 more around the capital region Photograph: Joel Lindhe/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock/Guardian

Sue Schubel hand-paints around 500 sculptures a year from her workshop in a converted barn steps from the ocean in Bremen, Maine, a tiny town in the lower third of the state’s craggy coast. Jean Hall/National Audubon Society Seabird Institute / Smithsonian Magazine

From the air, this eruption on an active lava field looks like a dragon. German Society GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026, Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove

Milky Way Photo Contest 2026. You need 4x4 to go deep into the Puna de Atacama, a remote region in Argentina, far from any source of light pollution, untouched, minimalist. Magnificent. Photograph: Daniel Viñé Garcia / Courtesy the Guardian

Nature Art. Appearing in a landscape that looks as though it were painted in watercolor, a male red deer roars in the rain. This photograph was the runner-up in the animal behavior category. By Paul Browning / British Wildlife Photography Awards 2025

The Beauty After a river flooded a forest, the surface froze and the underlying water retreated. Then, the resulting sheet of ice began to melt and break up, creating a dramatic scene. German GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026, Eike Christian Wolff

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