The Daily Looker

The blog that highlights image makers' daily pictures made around the world. Disclaimer: None of these pictures are mine unless stated otherwise.

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Ramona Forchini of Switzerland celebrates as she wins the Women's Under 23 Cross-Country Olympic race on day 4 of the UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships on September 4, 2015 in La Massana, Andorra.  

David Ramos/Getty Images for British Cycling

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Migrants wait to board a northbound train from Macedonia's south border, near Gevgelija August 26, 2015. The train will take them to Macedonia's north border with Serbia, on their way to Western Europe. 

Ognen Teofilovski/Reuters

“I try to make my photographs as emotional as possible.”

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In this Monday, Aug, 17, 2015, photo, a sheep dog and her two pups protect a dead fawn, killed when fire swept through Kamiah, Idaho. The dogs stayed for hours, warding off people and potential predators, according to a witness. The group of fires near Kamiah, in northern Idaho, has destroyed more than 40 homes. 

Louis Armstrong via AP

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A tourist swims inside the Blue Cave of the island of Kastellorizo, Greece's easternmost island July 30, 2015. 

Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters

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A water protest sign is seen near Bakersfield, California, United States, July 23, 2015. California is in their fourth year of a catastrophic drought. 

Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

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An orthodox priest baptizes a man in the Black Sea during a ceremony marking the 1,027th anniversary of the Christianisation of Kievan Rus' in Yalta, Crimea, July 28, 2015. Orthodox believers mark on Tuesday the Christianisation of the country, which was known as Kievan Rus' at the time, by its grand prince, Vladimir I (Vladimir the Great), in 988AD. 

Pavel Rebrov/Reuters

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The daughters of Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi pose with an image of their mother while standing outside their residence in Sheikhupura located in Pakistan's Punjab Province, in this November 13, 2010 file photo. Pakistan's Supreme Court on July 22, 2015, temporarily suspended the death sentence of a Christian woman accused of blasphemy, her lawyer said, in a case that hit global headlines after the murder of two politicians who tried to intervene on her behalf. Asia Bibi, a farm worker and mother of four, became the first woman to be sentenced to death under Pakistan's controversial blasphemy law in 2010. Seen here (L-R) are Esha, 12, Sidra, 18 and Eshum, 10. 

Adrees Latif/Reuters

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People walk past debris on May 3, 2015 in Bhaktapur, Nepal. A major 7.8 earthquake hit Kathmandu mid-day on Saturday, and was followed by multiple aftershocks that triggered avalanches on Mt. Everest that buried mountain climbers in their base camps. Many houses, buildings and temples in the capital were destroyed during the earthquake, leaving over 6000 dead and many more trapped under the debris as emergency rescue workers attempt to clear debris and find survivors. Regular aftershocks have hampered recovery missions as locals, officials and aid workers attempt to recover bodies from the rubble.  

David Ramos/Getty Images

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A neighborhood sits in darkness as the sun sets in Sana’a, Yemen, 02 May 2015. As clashes between tribal fighters loyal to Yemeni president Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi and Shiite Houthi militias continue in the western Yemeni city of Marib, repair teams are still unable to reach the affected city where the power transmitting lines have been knocked out after they were hit three weeks by warplanes from the Saudi led coalition who have been carrying out airstrikes on Houthi positions since 25 March, leaving already suffering Yemeni civilians without power. 

Yahya Arhab/EPA 

A girl looks on while resting on her mother's lap as they sit inside an underground water tunnel with other displaced Yemeni families, after they were forced to flee their home due to ongoing air-strikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in Sanaa May 2, 2015. 

Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters

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A vehicle travels along a road at Pucon city, which was hit by ashes from Calbuco volcano, April 23, 2015. An ash cloud from volcano Calbuco in southern Chile that erupted unexpectedly on Wednesday was blowing into Chile and Argentina on Thursday, forcing the cancellation of flights from nearby towns in both countries. 

Cristobal Saavedra/Reuters

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Riot policemen stand splattered with red paint thrown by protesters outside the Athens University on April 16, 2015. The protesters demended the release of families of political prisoners and changes to the anti-terrorist law. The tension arose at the end of the demonstration of opponents to a gold mine project in the Halkidiki peninsula, northern Greece, in Skouries.   

 Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images

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A relative of a victim of the Sewol ferry disaster sits on the deck of a boat during a visit to the site of the sunken ferry, off the coast of South Korea's southern island of Jindo April 15, 2015. 

Ed Jones/Pool

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Groomers cut hair of pet dogs as they attend a pet barber qualification test in Changsha, Hunan province, April 15, 2015.  

Darwin Zhou/Reuters

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A general  view into the rotunda inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem that shows the Tomb of Christ as the miracle of the Holy Fire occurs on 11 April 2015, the day before Orthodox Easter Sunday. Eastern Orthodox Christians believe the Holy Fire, which emenates from within the Tomb of Christ and quickly spreads around the church and outside to Jerusalem and even to foreign countries, represents the flame of the Resurrection power, as well as the fire of the Burning Bush of Mount Sinai.  

Abir Sultan/EPA

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A teacher looks at sketches done by candidates taking part in an entrance examination at China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, March 25, 2015.

Chance Chan/Reuters

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Palestinian girls play at their family's house, that witnesses said was damaged by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war last summer, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, March 10, 2015. A Qatari official visiting a Gaza neighbourhood heavily bombed in last summer's war with Israel said on Tuesday the Gulf Arab state had begun a project to rebuild 1,000 homes as part of a $1 billion aid pledge. 

Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

“My earliest memories of photography are pictures of the destruction of Palestinian houses in Gaza.”

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(Top) A man speaks at a computer in an internet hut in Thae Chaung village, home to thousands of displaced Rohingya Muslims near Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State in western Myanmar February 15, 2015.

(Clockwise, starting top left) Sanura, 18, tries to talk to her husband from an internet hut in Thae Chaung village.

-Norbanu, a 60-year-old Rohingya, speaks with her daughter's boyfriend.

-A boy peers into an internet hut in Thae Chaung village.

-Rohingya people, some crying, video-chat with a big group of their relatives in Bangladesh.

Operators of the huts charge customers 10 cents a minute to talk to relatives who have left Rakhine State by boat to seek work overseas. In a camp for displaced Rohingya Muslims, residents frequent bamboo "internet huts" where they can communicate with relatives who left the country, escaping the violence that led to 200 deaths and left over 140,000 homeless in 2012. Some arrive safely, while others are held hostage for ransom by human traffickers at jungle camps in Thailand or Malaysia. 

Minzayar/Reuters

“I respect my subjects.”