January 21 2012

United Kingdom

 Detail of a banana leaf,Mainau Island,Germany

(© Egon Bömsch /Age footstock)

 China, Japan

Fireworks at Kek Lok Si Temple,Penang,Malaysia

(© Tan Lian Hock/Asia RM/Age footstock)

 France

Rikuchu Kaigan National Park,Tohoku region,Japan

(© Chad Ehlers/Photolibrary)

Australia, Canada, Germany

 Umbrellas on a beach in Cape Town,South Africa

(© Roger Wright/Getty Images)

New Zealand, United States

Frosted bearberry (uva-ursi) bush on the tundra in the Yukon,Canada

(© Peter Van Rhijn/Corbis)

January 20 2012

Canada, Germany

Frosted bearberry (uva-ursi) bush on the tundra in the Yukon,Canada

(© Peter Van Rhijn/Corbis)

United Kingdom

 Concorde

(© Peter Burian/Corbis)

 France

 Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania,US

(© Kordcom Kordcom/Age Fotostock/Photolibrary)

 China

Sunset Skiers

(© Felix Rioux/Lonely Planet Images)

 Australia

Stromatolites at dawn in Shark Bay,Australia

(© Frans Lanting/Corbis)

New Zealand, United States

 King Penguin colony on South Georgia Island

(© Frans Lanting/Corbis)

  Japan

 Revelstoke Dam,British Columbia,Canada

(© Christopher Morris/Corbis)