The week's best photojournalism

In some of the week's most striking images, California blooms, a newborn elephant takes a step, and more

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California flowers.
The flower fields of Carlsbad, California.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Mike Blake))

Police forensic teams search Parliament Square after the terror attack in London.
(Image credit: (EPA/ANDY RAIN))

President Trump breaks from a meeting with truck drivers and trucking CEOs to sit in an 18-wheeler in Washington, D.C.
(Image credit: (EPA/JIM LO SCALZO))

A staged mutiny at a juvenile correctional facility in Guatemala City.
(Image credit: (EPA/ESTEBAN BIBA))

A worker at Poco Azul cavern searches for tourists' dropped belongings in Bahia, Brazil.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Pilar Olivares))

A man sells balloons during Nowroz Day celebrations in Kabul, Afghanistan.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Omar Sobhani))

A newborn elephant calf walks with its mother and another herd member in the Cologne Zoo, Germany.
(Image credit: (EPA/FRIEDEMANN VOGEL))

Belarusians dance near a bonfire during the "Gukannie Vjasny" (spring calling) holiday in the village of Ozertso, Belarus.
(Image credit: (EPA/TATYANA ZENKOVICH))

Boys play in an abandoned car in the yard of an orphanage in Sanaa, Yemen.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah))

Greyhounds compete at Wimbledon Stadium in London.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth))

A baby sleeps in a hammock on a lake-side promenade in Mumbai, India.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui)**See last week's best photojournalism**)

Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.