January 06 2012

United Kingdom

Over 50 hot air balloons attempt the largest ever balloon crossing of the English channel - April 2007

(© Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

China

Snow Gum Trees in Cradle Mountain-Lake St. Clair National Park,Tasmania,Australia
(© Rob Blakers/Getty Images) ©

Australia, Canada, Germany, France

 Guetenbach slowly peels out of the morning mist,Black Forest,Baden-Wuerttemberg,Germany

(© HP Belenos/Huber/4Corners)

Germany 

 Close-up of bumper cars in Stuttgart,Germany

(© Panoramic Images/Getty Images)

New Zealand, United States

 

Skier making turns on a ridge near Valdez,Alaska,US

(© Wink Inc./Footage Search)

January 01 2012

Australia, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom

 Painted backstreet of Dozza in the province of Bologna, Italy

(© SIME/eStock Photos)

France

Great Horned Owl in the province of Alberta, Canada

(© Wayne Lynch/Corbis)

China

 Guetenbach slowly peels out of the morning mist, Black Forest, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

(© HP Belenos/Huber/4Corners)

Japan

Fireworks over Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong

(© Chan Yat Nin/Corbis)

New Zealand, United States

  

Polar Bear rolling on the frozen Beaufort Sea, near Point Barrow, Alaska, US

(© Patrick J. Endres/Visuals Unlimited)

November 23 2011

United Kingdom

Kale

(© Gap Photos/Visuals Unlimited, Inc.)

 

 New Zeland, United States

 

 

Tent and prayer flags, Tagong Grasslands, Sichuan, China

(© Robert Harding Picture Library/Superstock)

 

France

 

 Pont des Arts leading to the Institute of France, Paris, France

(© Maurizio Rellini/SIME/4Corbers)

Canada, China, Japan

 Cranberries floating on the water's surface in Harwich, Massachusetts, US

(© Kerry Sherck/Aurora/Getty Images)

Germany

 Guetenbach slowly peels out of the morning mist, Black Forest, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

(© HP Belenos/Huber/4Corners)

Australia

Lake Um el Ma and the Erg Ubari sand dune in the Sahara Desert, Libya

Radius Images/Photolibrary