I love powerful images. They transport me to other parts of the world I might otherwise never see. These striking images show the world from all different angles, walks of life and distances. Every one of them offers a different kind of beauty, telling a unique story.

Pedestrian crossing trompe l’oeil

Students lining up to have Steve the Custodian sign their yearbooks

This pup will grow up to be a guide dog

Yoga on the edge, in Trolltunga, Norway

Penguin pool party

The snow?s artful gift: ice grill

On the left, Earth from Mars and on the right, Mars from Earth

The lights of Rio at night

Iceland?s Dynjandi Waterfalls

Rare sight: a quadruple rainbow

Typical winter day on the Canadian railway

Flirting houses

Hard to tell: Is it a pirate ship or a kite of a pirate ship?

Turtle hitches a ride on the back of a crocodile

Cypress tree lined avenue in Point Reyes, California

A car sculpture issued a parking ticket

Nature loves a contrast

Banyan: Strangling fig tree

Alaska?s own Aurora Borealis, near Bear Lake

A wet water walkway in Croatia

Trick of the eye or the biggest puppy ever?

Metropolitan Tokyo

Snow creates Canadian Gothic

Strawberry up close

Rwandan cycle team stop to see snow for the first time

George Peabody Library in Baltimore

China?s Guangxi Province
