The Daily Escape

Feb. 6, 2013

A clear mountain lake in Bariloche, Argentina, reflects the twilight sky.

Feb. 5, 2013

Greenland's Birthday Canyon.

Feb. 4, 2013

Heavy fog hangs above Lake Geneva at sunset near Lausanne, western Switzerland.

Feb. 1, 2013

A ferry boat sails in the Yangon River in the late evening in Yangon, Myanmar.

Jan. 31, 2014

Aerial view of clounds and sun during a flight over Vienna.

Jan. 30, 2013

A double rainbow is seen over central London.

Jan. 29, 2013

Sunlight breaks through the clouds at the Phinda Private Game Reserve, near the town of Hluhluwe, in Kwazulu-Natal province, South Africa.

Jan. 28, 2013

A lone runner exercises on a deserted Tynemouth beach in Tyne and Wear, England, during a golden winter sunrise.

Jan. 25, 2013

The final day of racing at the Quantum Key West 2013 sailing regatta in Key West, Fla.

Jan. 24, 2012

A half moon appears behind mountains Wengen, Switzerland.

Jan. 23, 2013

The sun sets over Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Jan. 22, 2013

An Emirati child plays with a model airplane near the city of Madinat Zayed, UAE.

Jan. 21, 2013

Huntmaster Tim Coulson at the Lauderdale Hunt exercises the hounds in the snow at Scarce Law  in Lauder, Scotland.

Jan. 18, 2012

Blue Rock Mountain overlooks Santee, Calif. in suburban San Diego County.

Jan. 17, 2013

Jesse Hall (left) and Marshall Miller over the Birds of Prey World Cup ski course in Beaver Creek, Colo.

Jan. 16, 2012

The sun rises over the Mt. Fuji seen from a charted plane.

Jan. 15, 2012

Sunrise at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia.

Jan. 14, 2012

A woman descends a stairway that was decorated by Chilean artist Jorge Selaron in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Jan. 11, 2012

Norway's Paul Ullevalseter competes in the 2013 Dakar Rally between Arica and Calama, Chile.

Jan. 10, 2013

Mandalay Palace is reflected in a surrounding moat at sunset, in Mandalay, Myanmar.

Jan. 9, 2012

A surfer leaves Dog Beach on a bicycle in Huntington Beach, Calif.

Jan. 8, 2012

A University of Wisconsin-Madison track and cross-country team member runs along Vilas Park Drive in Madison, Wis.

Jan. 7, 2012

Geese fly over Lake Michigan at Montrose Beach in Chicago.

Jan. 4, 2012

Austria's Wolfgang Loitzl soars through the air during a competition jump at the Four Hills ski jumping tournament in Innsbruck, Austria.

Jan. 3, 2013

An Indian man carries children to school by bicycle on a foggy morning in Bhubaneswar, India.

Jan. 2, 2013

A cross-country skier makes his way through the foggy winter landscape near Oberstdorf, southern Germany.

Jan. 1, 2013

A open gate leads into fields covered in flood waters surrounding the village of Muchelney near Langport, England.

Dec. 31, 2012

Water flows through a snow covered Muddy Creek Falls at Swallow Falls State Park near Oakland, Md.

Dec. 29, 2012

People crowd Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro.

Dec. 27, 2012

Storm clouds close in on the Patersons Stadium in Perth, Australia.

Dec. 26, 2012

A woman takes a picture in the snow in Yangzhou, east China's Jiangsu province.

Dec. 25, 2012

The "Aiguilles de Chamonix" in the Mont-Blanc mountain chain are pictured behind the frozen Gailland lake in the Chamonix Valley, French Alps.

Dec. 24, 2012

The snow-covered Leigong Mountain in Leishan, southwest China's Guizhou province.

Dec. 21, 2012

Mist rises in downtown in Jilin, in northeast China.

Dec. 20, 2012

Milford Sound, New Zealand.

Dec. 19, 2012

Danish freestyle skier Anja Bolbjerg skies down to sea level from the top of Mount Geitgaljen in the Lofoten region of Norway.

Dec. 18, 2012

Village of Manarola at night, Cinque Terre, Italy.

Dec. 17, 2012

Snow covers the landscape near Starnberg, southern Germany

Dec. 14, 2012

The sun sets over Mackinac Island and the Mackinac Pass Light in Lake Huron.

Dec. 13, 2012

A frosty day at Yosemite National Park.

Dec. 12, 2012

A woman carries a basket of flowers across rice terraces in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.

Dec. 11, 2012

Machu Picchu, which sits at 7,700 feet above sea level in the heart of the Urubamba valley in southern Peru, 317 miles south of Lima, remained unknown to Spanish conquerors and is now visited by up to 250,000 people a year.

Dec. 10, 2012

Light from towns and villages in Western Switzerland is visible through a layer of cloud covering the Lake Geneva region. The Mont Blanc massif mountain range towers above the clouds in background.

Dec. 7, 2012

The sun sets over yurts in Bayan-Olgii Province, Mongolia.

Dec. 6, 2012

A Hindu devotee offers prayers in the River Yamuna during Karthik Purnima in New Delhi, India.

Dec. 5, 2012

A glowing Uluru, or Ayer's Rock, in Australia's Northern Territory.

Dec. 4, 2012

People walk along the banks of Loch Achray with Tigh Mor house on the opposite bank, on Nov. 30 in Aberfoyle, Scotland.

Dec. 3, 2012

A hiker raises his arms in the Italian Alps.

Nov. 30, 2012

A hiker pauses on Chairback Mountain overlooking Long Pond on the 100-Mile Wilderness section of the Appalachian Trail north of Monson, Maine.

Nov. 29, 2012

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is lit during the 80th annual tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center in New York, Nov. 28.

Nov. 28, 2012

The sun rises in Palm Cove, Australia.

Nov. 27, 2012

Skiers are silhouetted against the snow capped mountains as they ride the chairlift in Lake Louise, Alberta.

Nov. 26, 2012

A windsurfer enjoys the waves on the beach in Scheveningen, near The Hague, Netherlands.

Nov. 23, 2012

Sheep stand in a mist covered field, in York, England.

Nov. 22, 2012

A rainbow is seen over the Galata Bridge and Galata Tower as a woman walks with her umbrella after a rainy day in Istanbul.

Nov. 21, 2012

The sun shines on Beecraigs Loch in Scotland.

Nov. 20, 2012

Clouds roll over the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.

Nov. 19, 2012

Surfers run across the beach at sunset in San Diego, Calif.

Nov. 16, 2012

Ole Christian Mustad of Norway competes in the men's slopestyle qualifications during the U.S. Snowboarding and Freeskiing Grand Prix on March 3, 2012, in Mammoth, Calif.

Nov. 15, 2012

Sunlight breaks through the clouds at Jackson Lake in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo.

Nov. 14, 2012

The sun rises over Tamblingan Lake, Buleleng, Bali.

Nov. 13, 2012

Kayakers cross Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii.

Nov. 12, 2012

Mountain bike rider Paul Stevens rides in Whistler Mountain Bike Park in British Columbia.

Nov. 9, 2012

Track riders from the Gai Waterhouse stable walk in the ocean during a horse recovery session ahead of the Melbourne Cup at Altona Beach on Nov. 5, 2012, in Melbourne, Australia.

Nov. 8, 2012

Sun sets at Coyote Buttes South in northern Arizona.

Nov. 7, 2012

A kayaker travels through Greenland's icy waters.

Nov. 6, 2012

Evening at the White House, Washington, D.C.

Nov. 5, 2012

Dawn on the coast of San Sebastian, Spain.

Nov. 2, 2012

The Shay No. 5 steam locomotive pushes a caboose and a load of specially designed culvert liners to a brook trout stream along the headwaters of Shavers Fork in Cass, W.Va.

Nov. 1, 2012

Early morning traffic in Brooklyn moves slowly beneath the Manhattan skyline, Thursday, Nov. 1, three days after Superstorm Sandy hit New York.

Oct. 31, 2012

Morning mist lifts over a pumpkin patch on Vancouver Island.

Oct. 30, 2012

People stop along the Brooklyn waterfront to photograph the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline, Tuesday, Oct. 30, in New York. Much of lower Manhattan was without electric power following the impact of superstorm Sandy.

Oct. 29, 2012

Slovakia's Filip Polc competes in The Descent of the Condor mountain bike race in La Paz, Bolivia, Oct. 27.

Oct. 26, 2012

The sun rises in Maui, Hawaii.

Oct. 25, 2012

Morning in Cabo de Huertas, Alicante.

Oct. 24, 2012

Night falls over Rayong, Thailand.

Oct. 23, 2012

Morning clouds fill the Grand Canyon at Point Imperial, Arizona.

Oct. 22, 2012

Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Oct. 19, 2012

Grand Prismatic Spring, the largest hot spring in the United States, steams in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

Oct. 18, 2012

The sun sets over Corfu Island, Greece.

Oct. 17, 2012

A shepherd's cabin in the Queyras valley of the Hautes-Alpes region of south-eastern France.

Oct. 16, 2012

A sea kayaker paddles among icebergs on Bear Glacier Lake, Kenai Fiords National Park, Alaska.

Oct. 15, 2012

The full moon rises over Albert Bridge in London, England.

Oct. 12, 2012

A tourist boat sails along the Li River in Yangshuo, Guangxi Province, China.

Oct. 9, 2012

The sun rises over a freshly snow-covered horizon at Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Alaska.

Oct. 10, 2012

The moon rises over Sesriem Canyon in Naukluft Park, Namibia.

Oct. 9, 2012

A rainbow appears over Yosemite Valley following a rain storm.

Oct. 8, 2012

Cliffs at Cape D'Or, Nova Scotia.

Oct. 5, 2012

Cows graze a pasture beneath a haze-filtered moon near Sioux Falls, S.D., as autumn gets under way.

Oct. 4, 2012

The skyline of midtown Manhattan is silhouetted by sunset.

Oct. 3, 2012

A carousel rotates during the Oktoberfest beer festival in Erfurt, Germany, last week.

Oct. 2, 2012

A man fly fishes in a placid lake in Hemsedal, Norway.

Oct. 1, 2012

A diver swims below a school of black striped salema in the waters of the Galapagos Islands.

Sept. 28, 2012

Clouds are reflected in the Kitla lake in Glacier National Park.

Sept. 27, 2012

A wingsuit diver soars over Dubai.

Sept. 26, 2012

The Earth rising, as seen from the surface of the moon. This photo was taken with a Hasselblad film camera during the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969.

Sept. 25, 2012

The sunset at St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, United Kingdom, is reflected in the wet sand.

Sept. 24, 2012

Kyoto, Japan.

Sept. 21, 2012

Preikestolen, also known as Pulpit Rock, Norway.

Sept. 20, 2012

A hang glider soars over San Francisco, Calif.

Sept. 19, 2012

The sun peaks through the clouds in Bala, Ontario.

Sept. 18, 2012

Artem Silchenko dives 95 feet from a rock monolith in Islet Vila Franca do Campo, Azores, Portugal.

Sept. 17, 2012

Sunset at Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

Sept. 14, 2012

The sun sets over New York City.

Sept. 13, 2012

A nomadic Peul man rides his donkey cart in Dakoro, Niger.

Sept. 12, 2012

An orange sunset silhouettes a bicycle on a summer night in Sweden.

Sept. 11, 2012

The sun sets over Zion National Park, Utah.

Sept. 10, 2012

Water level view of stand up paddling at Napili Bay, Maui, Hawaii.

Sept. 7, 2012

Pillars of sandstone rise above the prairie at Medicine Rocks State Park, north of Ekalaka, Mt.

Sept. 6, 2012

The Pichavaram Mangrove Forest in Tamil Nadu, South India.

Sept. 5, 2012

An aerial shot of the volcanic landscape of Landmannalaugar, Iceland.

Sept. 4, 2012

Rock formations on the shale shelf at Saltwick Bay, Yorkshire, England.

Sept. 3, 2012

The sun sets over Pendrathen bay, St Marys Isles of Scilly, Cornwall.

Sept. 2, 2012

Clouds settle over the Great Wall of China.