David Gallan / House photographed during a bushfire in Tathra, New South Wales, Australia. The photograph was taken at noon but ash and smoke from the fire darkened the sky and created night time conditions. Badja F...

David Gallan / DUPLICATE-BG DELETE-BG The photographer's house at noon (mid-summer) captured under night time conditions as ash and smoke from the Badja Fire north of the Bega River darkened the sky. A steel buc...

Nick Upton / Meadow salsify / Goat's beard (Tragopogon pratensis) flower in a chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, May.

Alex Hyde / Noon fly / Noonday fly (Mesembrina meridiana) feeding on Ivy (Hedera helix) flowers. Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, UK, November.

Fabrice Cahez / Goat's-beard (Tragopogon pratensis) close up of seed head, Mont-Lozere, Cevennes National Park, France, July.

Ernie Janes / Goatsbeard (Tragopogon pratensis) seedhead at sunset, England, UK, July.

Lucas Bustamante / Scarlet macaws (Ara macao) and Red and green macaws (Ara chloroptera) flying over the Amazon at noon. Tambopata Reserve, Madre de Dios, Peru.

Nick Upton / Ivy bee (Colletes hederae) feeding on Ivy flowers (Hedera helix) near a Noon fly (Mesembrina meridiana), Wiltshire garden, UK, September.

Loic Poidevin / Meadow salsify (Tragopogon pratensis) seedhead, Gard, France, May.

Michael Hutchinson / Meadow salsify (Tragopogon pratensis) in flower, Ashton Court, North Somerset, UK, May.

Michael Hutchinson / Meadow salsify (Tragopogon pratensis) in flower, Ashton Court, North Somerset, UK, May.

Michael Hutchinson / Meadow salsify (Tragopogon pratensis) in flower, Ashton Court, North Somerset, UK, May.

Alex Hyde / Noon fly / Noonday fly (Mesembrina meridiana) basking on a rock. Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, UK. May.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Zankl / Goat's-beard (Tragopogon pratensis) flowering, Altwarper Dune, Altwarp, Germany, June.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Zankl / Goat's-beard (Tragopogon pratensis) flowering, Altwarper Dune, Altwarp, Germany, June.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Goatsbeard (Tragopogon pratensis) also called 'jack-go-to-bed-at noon' as it closes by midday. In garden at Podere Montecucco, Orvieto, Umbria, Italy, July.

Tui De Roy / Volcan Alcedo giant tortoises (Chelonoidis nigra vandenburghi) having a noon siesta, Alcedo Volcano, Isabela Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Nick Upton / Two Kentish snails (Monacha cantiana) aestivating on Goatsbeard / Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon (Tragopogon pratensis) seedhead, chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, July.

Nick Upton / 2020VISION / Noon fly (Mesembrina meridiana) on Mexican orange blossom (Choisya ternata) flowers in garden, Wiltshire, England, UK, April. . Property released.

Nick Upton / Noon fly / Noonday Fly (Mesembrina meridiana) 'bubbling' stomach contents, perhaps a form of external digestion in flies. Wiltshire, UK, May.

Nick Upton / Noon / Noonday fly (Mesembrina meridiana) feeding on Ivy flowers (Hedera helix) with Blackberry fruits (Rubus fruticosus) in the background. Wiltshire garden, UK, September

Tui De Roy / Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) pair in sky-pointing position to keep cool in noon sun, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) group in sky-pointing position to keep cool in noon sun, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) in sky-pointing position to keep cool in noon sun, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Tui De Roy / Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus) in sky-pointing position to keep cool in noon sun, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Stephen Dalton / Noon / Dung fly (Mesembrina meridiana) taking off from water mint flower, note the 180 degree wing twist, UK

Nick Upton / Noon fly / Noonday fly (Mesembrina meridiana) sunbasking on Ivy leaf (Hedera helix) Wiltshire garden, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Noon / Noonday fly (Mesembrina meridiana) using proboscis to nectar feed from Ivy (Hedera helix) flowers. Wiltshire garden, UK, September.

Nick Upton / Noon fly (Mesembrina meridiana) sun-basking on leaf, Wiltshire, UK, spring

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Man hiker, 52, in shorts, boots and hat, carrying backpack and water bottle, standing and looking ahead at the difficult and rocky broken terrain he wants to hike in, autumn noon, Badlands National Pa...

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Woman hiker's tired feet in dusty boots against backdrop of sandstone buttes, autumn noon, Paria Wilderness Area, Arizona

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Dramatic big cumulus clouds in blue sky over Grand Canyon at noon, Toroweap Overlook, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Large windfarm at work on ridge in high desert grasslands with a multitude of turning turbines and a big sky full of cumulus clouds, summer, noon, Wyoming

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Windfarm turbine at work in high desert grasslands, summer, noon, Wyoming

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Eroded sandstone cliffs and hills with colorful layers in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, noon, Utah

Kim Taylor / Dung / Noon fly {Mesembrina meridiana} feeding on Hogweed, Surrey, England.

Jim Brandenburg / Frozen lake surrounded by coniferous forest on the year's shortest day, Minnesota

Barry Bland / A man navigating by Sextant, a measuring instrument generally used to measure the angle of elevation of a celestial object above the horizon. Model Released. ^^^Making this measurement is known as sig...

Barry Bland / A man navigating by Sextant, a measuring instrument generally used to measure the angle of elevation of a ^^^celestial object above the horizon. Making this measurement is known as sighting the object...

Premaphotos / Noonday flies (Mesembrina meridiana) basking on Birch tree trunk, UK

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Close-up of intricate patterns of eroded sandstone cliffs in a small canyon near Churchwells, noon, Utah

Neil Aldridge / Yellow-billed oxpeckers (Buphagus africanus) entering frame and landing on young Impala (Aepyceros Melampus) male. The birds are feeding on insects on the Impala's body in midday heat. A herd of Burch...

Stefan Christmann / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) group standing on ice, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.

Nick Garbutt / Lion (Panthera leo) female, resting in tree during middle of day to escape the heat with juvenile male Lion approaching, near Ndutu, Ngorongoro Conservation Area / Serengeti National Park border, Tanz...

Nick Garbutt / Lion (Panthera leo) female, resting in tree during middle of day to escape the heat near Ndutu, Ngorongoro Conservation Area / Serengeti National Park border, Tanzania.

Franco Banfi / Ilheu das Cabras in fog. Terceira island, Azores, Portugal. Atlantic Ocean.

Franco Banfi / Some small islands on coast near Terceira Island, Azores, Atlantic Ocean.

Nick Upton / Meadow salsify / Meadow goat's-beard (Tragopogon pratensis) seedhead against blue sky, Kenfig National Nature Reserve, Glamorgan, Wales, UK, July.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Tragopogon x mirabilis, a natural hybrid between Goat's beard (Tragopogon pratensis) and Salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius) found in several colour forms, Umbria, Italy. May.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Tragopogon x mirabilis, a natural hybrid between Goat's beard (Tragopogon pratensis) and Salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius) found in several colour forms, Umbria, Italy. May.

Paul Harcourt Davies / Close up of Goat's beard (Tragopogon pratensis) flower, Umbria, Italy. May.

John Waters / Meadow salsify (Tragopogon pratensis) close up of seed head, Daneway Banks, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK, June.

Dave Watts / Roundleaf pigface (Disphyma clavellatum). Tasmania, Australia. November.

David Pattyn / At noon there is a multidisciplinary meeting to evaluate all the patients of the ICU department Jeroen Bosch Ziekenhuis, Den Bosch, 's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands March 2020. EDITORIAL USE ON...

David Pattyn / At noon there is a multidisciplinary meeting to evaluate all the patients of the ICU department Jeroen Bosch Ziekenhuis, Den Bosch, 's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands March 2020. EDITORIAL USE ON...

Ernie Janes / Silhouette of Goatsbeard seedheads (Tragopogon pratensis) with grasses.

Linda Pitkin / Goat's-beard (Tragopogon pratensis), seed head, Bishop's Meadow, Farnham, Surrey, England, June.

Philippe Clement / Brazil raintree (Brunfelsia pauciflora) in flower, endemic to Brazil. May