Travel

A snow-capped mountain takes the last orange light while farmed hillsides sit in shadow below a band of cloud.

A tanner in a straw hat scrapes a damp hide on the stone rim of a vat filled with deep red dye.

A monk in saffron robes stands at a carved stone railing and looks down on a crowded courtyard of yellow-roofed palace halls.

A woman with thanaka paste on her cheeks smiles in front of the gold of Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar.

Players chase a red ball on a concrete court, seen through chain-link, with palms and a high-rise skyline behind them.

A pedicab driver grins and reaches toward the camera as other rickshaws pass under green-tiled roofs.

A woman lights thick red candles at a metal table while incense coils hang in the haze of a temple hall.

A full moon hangs in a pink twilight sky above eroded, banded ridges with no one in the frame.

A worker in rubber boots balances a stuffed yellow sack while walking past towering piles of bagged waste and a parked cargo trike.

A man reaches into a standing side stretch on a stone patio beside a steep-roofed wooden building and dense tropical plants.

A weathered stone angel stands in the foreground as a colonial church rises behind it, bell tower capped with a gold dome and a clock.

The Oriental Pearl Tower and the Pudong skyline throw purple and gold light across the Huangpu River in Shanghai.

A girl rests her chin in an open jeepney window beside a yellow sticker for the SM Mall of Asia route.

Visitors cross the white-tiled plaza at Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, the main stupa rising under an overcast sky.

A vendor in a floral hijab sits behind round woven trays of split, sun-dried fish at an open-air market stall.

People sit at outdoor tables beneath red-and-green umbrellas while a gold-trimmed guildhall and a Gothic spire fill the sky.

Headlights streak along a curved waterfront highway as skyscrapers, a marina, and lit sports courts hold the last orange of dusk.

A girl in pink sunglasses runs the stone steps of the Great Wall as the ridge drops away into forested hills.

Two women in matching white feathered dresses and netted headpieces take a selfie in front of a red banner with gold Chinese characters.

A gray naval destroyer and the tanker Clipper Sky sit in adjacent lock chambers as a cable-stayed bridge spans the canal beyond.

A driver works the wheel of a silver jeepney behind a mounted Wrangler spare, an American flag hung as a cab curtain.

Three women cross a sunlit plaza, one holding a ruffled brown umbrella with a teddy-bear print against the glare.

A woman in a white wedding dress and veil sits on a champagne Vespa with a bouquet tied below the headlight.

A man holds incense beneath yellow temple umbrellas while lotus buds sit on the floor and a white stupa shows beyond.

Steam lifts off stacked bamboo steamers of buns beside a pot of tea eggs and a basket of fried dough on a city sidewalk.

Yellow glazed roof tiles, painted eaves, and a massive red wall catch hard sun against a clear blue sky at the Forbidden City.

A couple in longyis walks the crowded white pavement at Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Myanmar, sandals in the man’s hand.

Two boys play with a handmade bamboo bow in front of weathered temple reliefs and a seated gold statue.

A man poles a low boat past a tarp shelter and a pink balloon, with golden spires and modern buildings on the far bank.

A woman in a white mask lunges with a straight sword as others train the same form on a plaza under palm trees.

Red and blue houses stand on tall wooden stilts above still water, long boats tied in the shade of plastic tarps.

A two-lane highway with a yellow center line runs empty toward layered buttes under a hard blue sky.

A rider in a wide-brimmed hat pedals a bicycle stacked with baskets and a crate along a red dirt road lined with stilt houses.

A woman sits in silhouette on a dark ridgeline as the sun drops at Teddy Roosevelt National Park near Medora, North Dakota.