Warm, glowing sunlight spreads through the trunks and across the leaves of fast-growing, giant bamboo in the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest near Kyoto, Japan. Tall trunks and delicate leaves of bamboo completely fill the frame of this images.
The inner courtyard of Hatshepsuts Temple in Luxor, Egypt.
Sunrise over some of the oldest streets of Kyoto in Japan, before the residents have risen and the tourists have arrived.