Photography

Photos of the Week: Lunar Eclipse, Sandbar Cricket, Horn Dance

A cattle drive in Germany, anti-government protests in France and Nepal, the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in New York, surfing Chihuahuas in California, and much more

By Alan Taylor

Updated at 11:45 a.m. ET on September 18, 2025

A man carrying more than 30 full beer mugs spills one or two.
Angelika Warmuth / Reuters
Oliver Strumpfel attempts to break the world record for beer-mug carrying, with 31 mugs, but he drops some along the way, at the Hofbräuzelt tent at the Gillamoos festival in Abensberg, Germany, on September 7, 2025.
Baseball players dump a tub full of water onto a fellow player.
John Froschauer / AP
The Seattle Mariners’ Leo Rivas celebrates his two-RBI walk-off home run off the St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Ryan Fernandez with his teammates during the 13th inning in Seattle, on September 10, 2025.
People play a game of cricket while standing in shallow water.
Ben Montgomery / Getty
Members of the Island Sailing Club cricket team play against the Bramble cricket team on September 11, 2025, in Southampton, England. Members of the two clubs meet annually for a cricket match played on the Bramble Bank sandbar in the middle of the Solent. The sandbar emerges from the sea for about half an hour each year when the tide is at its lowest.
Several dogs ride on a surfboard.
Patrick T. Fallon / AFP / Getty
The “Bing Bang Family” of Chihuahuas and a beagle surf a wave during the Helen Woodward Animal Center’s Surf Dog Surf-a-Thon at the dog beach in Del Mar, California, on September 7, 2025.
People look up toward a large sculpture of a leaping fox.
Hugh R Hastings / Getty
Sue and Pete Hill, a Cornish brother-and-sister artist team, and their associate Hal Silvester look up at their newly created leaping-fox sculpture made from rhododendron wood on September 11, 2025, at the Lost Gardens of Heligan, near St. Austell, Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Crowds of Hindu worshipers carry large statues of Ganesha into a river.
Punit Paranjpe / AFP / Getty
Devotees carry an idol of the elephant-headed Hindu deity Ganesha for its immersion in the Arabian Sea in Mumbai on September 6, 2025, on the last day of the festival Ganesh Chaturthi.
Performers walk along a road while carrying large sets of antlers each.
Phil Noble / Reuters
Dancers carrying sets of antlers perform the Horn Dance, which dates back to 1226, in the village of Abbots Bromley, England, on September 8, 2025.
A deer runs across a golf course.
Thien-An Truong / AP
A deer runs onto the golf course during the Walker Cup at Cypress Point Club, in Pebble Beach, California, on September 7, 2025.
A person shouts as a calf steps on their foot.
Finnbarr Webster / Getty
A handler screams as her foot is stepped on during cattle judging at the Dorset County Show on September 6, 2025, in Dorchester, England.
A tennis player shouts after winning a match.
Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP
Carlos Alcaraz celebrates after defeating Jannik Sinner in the men’s-singles final of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, in New York, on September 7, 2025.
A mural painted on a wall, apparently depicting a British judge swinging a gavel toward an injured protester.
Toby Melville / Reuters
A new mural by the anonymous artist Banksy on the Royal Courts of Justice in London, England, on September 9, 2025.
A person wearing a hoodie sits on the floor beside a building with many tall columns.
Joe Klamar / AFP / Getty
A young man sits in the shade of the neoclassical Theseus Temple’s columns at Volksgarten, a park in Vienna, Austria, on September 11, 2025.
Yellow tape that reads
Michael Ciaglo / Getty
Following the fatal shooting of political activist Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University the day before, crime-scene tape stretches in front of a 9/11 memorial on September 11, 2025, in Orem, Utah.
People use a machine to paint water-based colors onto rows of heather.
Sebastien Bozon / AFP / Getty
Employees of Les Callunas d’Alsace paint with water-based paint, coloring rows of heather in Obernai, France, on September 11, 2025.
A complex historic structure in Chonqing, brightly illuminated, seen at night.
Cheng Xin / Getty
Tourists gather on a riverside to view and photograph the brightly illuminated Hongyadong complex at night on September 9, 2025, in Chongqing, China.
A night view of the skyline of Manhattan, with two bright beams of light shining upward into the sky.
Gary Hershorn / Getty
The Tribute in Light, photographed from Jersey City, New Jersey, is illuminated above the skyline of Lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center, behind the Statue of Liberty, on September 10, 2025, ahead of the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York City.
A red-colored full moon is seen during an eclipse behind a statue.
Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP / Getty
A lunar eclipse engulfs the full moon, behind a statue of the ancient Greek goddess Irene holding a child, in central Athens, Greece, on September 7, 2025.
A performer holds up an astronaut-shaped award.
Kylie Cooper / Reuters
Megan Skiendiel of Katseye poses with the MTV Push Performance of the Year award for “Touch,” at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards in Elmont, New York, on September 7, 2025.
A model walks on a runway, wearing a large traditional headpiece.
Andy Wong / AP
A model presents a creation from the WuMeng Village collection by Si Pu during China Fashion Week, in Beijing, China, on September 9, 2025.
A masked protester runs on a street, fleeing from riot police.
Ed Jones / AFP / Getty
A protester runs away after clashing with riot-police officers during a demonstration, part of the Bloquons Tout (“Let’s Block Everything”) protest movement, in Toulouse, France, on September 10, 2025.
Several people stand inside the ruins of a burned structure, assessing the damage.
Adnan Abidi / Reuters
People stand inside the main hall of Parliament, which had been set on fire by protesters, following Monday’s deadly anti-corruption protests that were triggered by a social-media ban, in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 11, 2025.
A rooftop view of a mosque that is undergoing reconstruction.
Chaideer Mahyuddin / AFP / Getty
A worker takes part in the reconstruction of the domes of the Rahmatullah Mosque, a landmark building that withstood the devastation of the 2004 tsunami, in Lhoknga, Aceh province, Indonesia, on September 10, 2025.
The interior of a large, hot air balloon, with several people walking inside.
David W Cerny / Reuters
Crew members prepare a hot-air balloon during a hot-air-balloon fiesta, called 80 Balloons Above Hradec Králové, in the city of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, on September 6, 2025.
A fighter jet flies low, close to buildings, during a festival.
Dan Peled / Getty
A Royal Australian Airforce EA-18G Growler flies past buildings during the Riverfire Festival on September 6, 2025, in Brisbane, Australia.
Children play a game of cricket in a road beside a long fence, as an aircraft passes close overhead.
Avishek Das / SOPA Images / Reuters
Children play cricket while an Akasa Air passenger jet flies overhead, in the Jari Mari slum, before landing at Mumbai airport, in India.
A reservoir in a steep mountain landscape, with a glacier and several wind turbines visible.
Denis Balibouse / Reuters
Wind turbines, the Gries Dam, and the Gries Glacier, near Nufenen Pass in Obergoms, Switzerland, on September 11, 2025.
Clusters of green grapes hang from the vine.
Hendrik Schmidt / DPA / Getty
Grapes ripen in a vineyard near Freyburg in Zscheiplitz, Germany, on September 9, 2025.
A cow, adorned with decorations and a large cowbell
Angelika Warmuth / Reuters
A cow wears a decorated cowbell during the annual Almabtrieb cattle drive at the end of summer, near Bad Hindelang, Germany, on September 11, 2025.

This photo essay originally misidentified the country where Aceh province is located.

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Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic.