Wednesday: The day in photos

A woman relaxes on the lawn in front of the Brandhorst Museum, a new facility devoted to modern art, in Munich, Germany. The museum opens May 21.  (Matthias Schrader / Associated Press)

A great blue heron takes flight from a rock it was sharing with a great black-backed gull on a misty morning on Great Salt Bay in Newcastle, Maine.  (Robert F. Bukaty / Associated Press)

Dandelion spores await a breeze to set them free in Marysville, Pa.  (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press)

A giant mural by urban artist Victor Ash goes up on the wall of an old air raid shelter in Bremen, Germany, in preparation for the 32nd German Protestant Kirchentag, a biennial religious conference that will bring tens of thousands of visitors to the city May 20-24.  (David Heckler / AFP/Getty Images)

Snorkelers explore the coral reef in Bunaken Island Marine Park off the coast of Manado, Indonesia, which is hosting the World Ocean Conference.  (Romeo Gacad/ AFP/Getty Images)

Kayin, a 10-month-old South African giraffe, bows his neck at Singapore Night Safari, a nocturnal zoo.  (Wong Maye-E / Associated Press)

Martina Majerle of Slovenia’s Quartissimo & Martina rehearses for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest semifinals at Olympic Stadium in Moscow. The final will take place on Saturday.  (Sergey Ponomarev / Associated Press)