The ancient city of Matera in Southern Italy is stunningly beautiful and holds a wealth of history and culture just waiting to be discovered.
تستكنّ مدينة ماتيرا القديمة في جنوب إيطاليا وتتميّز بجمالها الأخّاذ وبثروتها التاريخية والثقافية التي يحلو استكشافها.
An intense thunderstorm rolls through the ancient city of Florence as lightning strikes all around.
تضرب عاصفة رعدية شديدة جميع أنحاء مدينة فلورنسا القديمة.
An intense sunset over the beautiful Pietrapertosa, a hidden gem nestled within the Southern Dolomites in Italy.
غروب شمس مُفعم بالألوان يغمر قرية بيترابيرتوسا الجميلة التي تُعدّ جوهرة مخفية تستكنّ في جبال الدولوميت الجنوبية في إيطاليا.
A breathtaking twilight in Manarola, one of the most beautiful towns in Le Cinque Terre.
شفق خلاب يلوح في أفق مانارولا، إحدى أجمل البلدات في منطقة سنك تير.
A short boat ride from Venice, the Island of Burano is intersected by narrow canals that run along rows of iconic multi-coloured homes.
على بُعد رحلة قصيرة بالقارب من البندقية، تتقاطع جزيرة بورانو مع القنوات الضيقة التي تتراصف على جانبَيها المنازل الشهيرة المكسوة بمزيج رائع من الألوان.
As I photographed this twilight scene in Atrani, I raised my glass to toast Italy and the incredible Amalfi Coast.
بينما كنت أقوم بتصوير مشهد الشفق هذا في أتراني، شربت نخب إيطاليا الجميلة وساحل أمالفي المذهل.
A powerful storm begins to engulf the beautiful Italian town of Vernazza in Cinque Terre.
تبدأ عاصفة قوية باجتياح مدينة فيرنازا الإيطالية الجميلة في منطقة سنك تير.
A spectacular sunset surrounds St Peters Basilica and the Vatican in Rome.
غروب الشمس الرائع يغمر كاتدرائية القديس بطرس والفاتيكان في روما.
An unbelievable sunset in Riomaggiore as the waves crash on a rocky coastline.
غروب الشمس المذهل يتلألأ في أفق قرية ريوماجيوري تناغماً مع تلاطم الأمواج على الساحل الصخري.
I was spellbound when I saw this extraordinary flower hat jelly, a drifter in sea currents which I photographed in an aquarium for my project about the evolution of life. The ancestors of jellies were among the first animals whose bodies exhibited an organised architecture, with groups of cells joining together as tissues to perform unified functions.
While traversing the Weddell Sea off Antarctica, I came upon an astonishing iceberg that looked like a turquoise cathedral sculpted by the force of waves.
When a group of chinstrap penguins came into view, they added reality to a surreal scene—their moment aboard the iceberg as fleeting as the life of the ice itself.
“Dwarfed by immense sand dunes tinged pink by the first light of morning, a lone oryx makes its way along a dune crest near the bor Namibia and Angola.”
Stalks of papyrus shimmer like a liquid tapestry on the surface of a placid lagoon. In the heart of the Okavango Delta, papyrus form dense floating islands of vegetation that filter nutrients from the water and leave it crystal clear downstream.
While tracking cheetahs in Kenya’s Masai Mara, I made this image of a male in his prime scanning the horizon from a magnificent fig tree. The excitement of the moment was tempered by my knowledge of how rare cheetahs actually are and how few places are left that can support a viable population of these extraordinary cats.
Every iceberg is a snapshot of water frozen in time. Ninety per cent of all ice on Earth is contained by Antarctica, and as our planet warms, ice shelves and glaciers dislodge an ever-larger portion of it each year into the Southern Ocean—adding to sea-level rise. That’s how the life cycle of ice affects everyone living along a seacoast anywhere.
I visualised the surging motion of an incoming tide with a long exposure as a wave swept through kelp along the shore of a remote island between New Zealand and Antarctica. Millions of petrels and penguins use this island as a home base for a life that is dependent on the bounty of the surrounding sub-Antarctic waters.
A sense of danger is ever-present on the African plains. This image visualises fear by suggesting it. A snort from one impala transformed a placid scattering of gazelles into a scene of suspense. Their collective gaze is focused on a threat, real or perceived, hidden in the grass.
At the awesome amphitheatre of Iguazú, dozens of spectacular waterfalls plunge down to form one of the world’s natural wonders. I made this photograph at dawn when the landscape was saturated with water vapour from an overnight rainstorm mixed with mist rising from the falls.
Baobabs glow against a night sky in western Madagascar. These “upside-down trees” are associated with Africa, but while that entire continent has only one species, Madagascar is home to six species of baobabs, all of them unique to that wondrous island. Locally they’re called “Reniala”, meaning mother of the forest.