Bernard Castelein / Inside the butterlamp room in the Enchey Monastery, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

Pete Cairns / Interior of main dining area, Vargas Wilderness Lodge, Halsingland, Sweden. 2006

Pete Oxford / Buddhist monk lighting candles, Kyichu Lhakhang Temple, Paro Valley, Bhutan 2001

Pete Oxford / Honey and beeswax candles. Community Bee Culture Project, Pro Pueblo Foundation, Ecuador

Roberto Rinaldi / Hindu ceremony, Mauritius. 2002

Jan Vermeer / Marzipan cake with candles and wreath, Holland

Grant Maslowski / A ranger "candles" an egg of an Okarito kiwi (Apteryx rowi) in Okarito Forest. A torch is used under the darkness of his work jacket to draw the outline of the egg's air sack as a baseline for eg...

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Women in front of large candles in Samye Monastery (at 3,630m), first Buddhist monastery in Tibet. Yarlung Valley, Tibet, China.

Milan Radisics / To protect their crop from frost damage, farmers on large apricot farms use the old, rarely seen technique of torching. Using liquid paraffin candles to heat the surrounding air, the heat and smoke cr...

Milan Radisics / Flowers of apricot trees surrounded with lights from giant candles, which are protecting them from the frost damage Zavod, Hungary, April, 2020. SajtoFoto (PressPhoto) Hungary Photography Competition...

Milan Radisics / Smoke and heat created by giant candles, filled with liquid paraffin, placed next to apricot trees to protect the buds from frost damage, Zavod, Hungary, April, 2020. SajtoFoto (PressPhoto) Hungary Ph...

Milan Radisics / Farmer running with torch from candle to candle, to light the fires before expected frost arrives, to protect the apricot harvest, Zavod, Hungary, April, 2020. SajtoFoto (PressPhoto) Hungary Photograp...