Lake landing : A bird lands in a rock in the Llanquihue lake, some 50 km east of Puerto Varas, 966 km south of Santiago. (AFP/Francisco Negroni)

A sculptor works at a sand park exhibition in Pera, southern Portugal May 21, 2008. More than 60 sculptors created a park with sand sculptures of well-known Hollywood films and characters in the Portuguese southern village of Pera. The park will be inaugurated on Thursday. REUTERS/Hugo Correia (PORTUGAL)

A giant fork sculpture, created in 1995 by Swiss artists Jean-Pierre Zaugg and Georges Favre, is pictured on the shores of Lake Leman in front of the Alimentarium, the Food Museum, in Vevey June 4, 2008. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (SWITZERLAND)

A gopher runs alongside the car of McLaren Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain during the afternoon practice session at the Canadian F1 Grand Prix in Montreal, June 6, 2008.

REUTERS/Christinne Muschi

Photograph by Robb Kendrick

A Qatari man in a traditional white dishdasha robe and a wind-blown red-and-white kaffiyeh stands before a sandstone formation near Dukhan. Qatar, a desert-covered Persian Gulf peninsula about the size of Jamaica, may be small, but its oil and natural gas reserves give it big clout. Per capita incomes there are among the highest in the world.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Revolution From the Top Down: Qatar," March 2003, National Geographic magazine)

A laborer plants flowers for the Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing, China. It is estimated that more than 40 million plants will be placed around the city during the games.

Ducking Around
Three ducks swim in a flooded street in Getxo, Biscay, northern Spain, after the banks of the Gobelas River burst.