Photograph by Greg Girard – A herder serenades his goats near Jerusalem, a few miles from where David tended his herds.

Photograph by Stephen Alvarez – In a sandy chamber known as the “beach,” a wave rolls across a wall painted (and repainted) by cataphiles in the style of Japanese printmaker Hokusai.

Photograph by Vincent J. Musi – A woman milks a mare in the village of Kogershin in southern Kazakhstan.

Photograph by Carsten Peter – An expedition member walks on the cooled lava floor, turned red by the reflected glow of a lake, of a caldera in Nyiragongo volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Photograph by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel – An abandoned rail line has become an elevated park known as the High Line.

Photograph by Mark W. Moffett – With a vigorous quiver, an Arizona sweat bee “buzz pollinates” a deadly nightshade flower. Its vibrating body shakes free the golden dust that will feed the larvae back in the nest.

Photograph by Brent Stirton – After a day of grazing in the surrounding desert, a herd of sheep and goats follow their owner to his home on the edge of Timbuktu.