Top 25 landscape images from the year 2019

A hiker walks in the Zillertal Alps during an autumn day near the village of Ginzling, Austria, October 15, 2019.

The Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) is seen in the sky over Lake Ladoga in Leningrad Region, Russia September 1, 2019.

The sun rises behind The Shard and the financial district as a cyclist rides through Richmond Park in London, Britain, May 13, 2019.

A couple rides a boat underneath cherry blossoms in full bloom in Tokyo, Japan, April 3, 2019.

A car drives along a 3 mile long road, which is supervised by regional traffic services to connect the banks of the ice-covered Yenisei River during winter season, south of Krasnoyarsk, Russia March 3, 2019.

Water flows around ice, formed on the American Falls in Niagara Falls, New York, due to subzero temperatures, viewed from the Canadian side, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, January 22, 2019.

Sheep and a bird drink from a pool on the riverbed of the Darling River in Menindee, Australia, September 27, 2019.

Clouds gather but produce no rain as cracks are seen in the dried-up municipal dam in drought-stricken Graaff-Reinet, South Africa, November 14, 2019.

Members of the Dolphin winter swimming club swim in the icy waters of the Yenisei River during their weekly bathing session, with the air temperature at about minus 28 degrees Celsius, in the Siberian town of Divnogorsk, Russia February 8, 2019. REUTERS

A view through mist shows the Kirk of Saint Mary Magdalene in Primorsk, Leningrad Region, Russia March 24, 2019.

The snow-covered landscape is seen near Menzingen, Switzerland February 5, 2019.

Hot air balloons fly over Qicai Danxia scenic area during a hot air balloon festival in Zhangye, Gansu province, China July 19, 2019.

A tourist takes a selfie photograph in an area forbidden to walking, overlooking the waterfalls in Gullfoss, Iceland September 16, 2019.

Creeping desert sands surround the Royal Cemeteries of Meroe Pyramids in Begrawiya at River Nile State, Sudan November 10, 2019.

The U.S. and Mexico border fence is seen in Tijuana, Mexico, January 27, 2019.

X-Raid's driver Orlando Terranova and co-driver Bernardo Graue in action during Stage 2 from Pisco to San Juan de Marcona, Peru of the Dakar Rally, January 8, 2019.

An aerial view of tulip fields near the city of Creil, Netherlands April 18, 2019.

Mist clears away on a sunny autumn day in the Valley de Joux near Le Chenit, Switzerland, October 23, 2019.

Horses run on the grassland of Ujimqin in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China July 21, 2019.

A full moon rises behind the Temple of Poseidon in Cape Sounion, near Athens, Greece, August 15, 2019.

Poppies are seen in full bloom during spring in Aleppo governorate, Syria April 14, 2019.

Tricia Cheshire, a resident of Amelia Island sunbathes for the last few minutes before storms hit the coast before Hurricane Dorian in Jacksonville, Florida, September 1, 2019.

Giant fennel plants are seen on a hillside overlooking Gnejna Bay, outside the village of Mgarr, Malta March 5, 2019.

A group of scientists from the Austrian Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research crosses the Jamtalferner glacier near Galtuer, Austria, April 24, 2019.

A boy sits by the swimming pool at the Israeli settlement of Vered Yericho in the occupied West Bank September 11, 2019.