David Tipling / Bluebells {Hyacinthoides non-scripta} flowering in Beech woodland, Buckinghamshire, UK, April

Bernard Castelein / Sunrays through Beech woodland {Fagus sylvatica} Belgium

Jorma Luhta / Aurora borealis bow prior to storm. Northern Finland, winter 2002

Niall Benvie / Ancient forest in winter snow, Bialowieza NP, Poland

Aflo / N-17605 Field of Sunflowers {Helianthus annuus}

Geoff Simpson / Cressbrook Dale with Early purple orchids {Orchis mascula} Peak District NP, Derbyshire, UK

Niall Benvie / Set aside farmland with Rosebay willowherb, Ragwort and Docks flowering, Angus, Scotland, UK

Aflo / N-15002 Woodland landscape with Birch trees + Azaleas in flower, Nagano, Japan.

Pete Cairns / Loch Morlich in evening light, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland.

Niall Benvie / Loch Morlich at sunset Inverness-shire, Scotland, UK

Pete Cairns / Evening light over pine forest and loch, Grampian Mtns behind, Cairngorms NP, Scotland, UK

Jorma Luhta / Wet swamp land, eastern Lapland, Finland

Pete Oxford / The Great Wall of China landscape, as seen from Jinshanling, China

James Aldred / Early morning mist over canopy of lowland primary Dipterocarp rainforest, Danum valley, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia, 2006

Bernard Castelein / Old pine trees at sunrise in mist {Pinus silvestris} Belgium

Jorma Luhta / Trees laden with snow on mid-winter day with shadow of the earth in the sky, Finland

Aflo / Y-9203 Aerial view of clouds around mountain peaks

Tony Heald / Double rainbow at Klein Namutoni waterhole, Etosha NP, Namibia

Jack Dykinga / Night sky with trails of stars rotating around the North Star with a Saguaro Cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) silhouetted in the foreground, Cabeza Prieta NW Refuge, Arizona, USA

George McCarthy / Panoramic view of rock formations at Bryce Canyon, dawn, Utah, USA

DAVID TIPLING / Panoramic view of river in winter snow, Abernethy RSPB reserve, Speyside, Scotland, UK