In a swamp outside of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, a farmer swims while planting duckweed on the water. The plant will later be turned into pig feed.

A person dressed as a demon shoots off fireworks during a correfoc in Catalonia, Spain. A correfoc, meaning "fire-run", is a traditional party in which participants dress as evil mythical creatures and delight in wild pyrotechnic displays.

A haze covers London during golden hour one January day. The tall building on the left is known as The Shard. At 95 stories high, it's the tallest building in the United Kingdom.

A Japanese macaque, also known as a snow monkey, performs a grooming routine on another in a natural hot spring in Jigokudani, Japan. Macaques groom each other to rid the fur of bugs and dead skin, and to promote social bonding. Doing so in the hot spring has the added benefit of keeping them warm in winter.

A scuba diver swims in an underground cave, called a cenote, in Cancun, Mexico. The Yucatan Peninsula is home to thousands of cenotes, making it a desirable destination for adventurous divers.

The sun sets over Grand Falls on the Little Colorado River in Arizona. "This view shows the effect of summer rains over the desert," explains Your Shot photographer Bernhard Michaelis, "resulting in muddy flows which give the falls another name: Chocolate Falls."

A travelling man pauses with his pack animals in northern Mongolia. Mongolia is the most sparsely populated sovereign nation in the world, with a population density of just five people per square mile.

Just the tail feathers of a long-tailed duck are visible as it dives for food on a gray autumn morning in Toronto. While they can usually find enough to eat near the surface of the water, they are capable of diving as deep as 200 feet.