Daniel Gomez / Controlled burning on shores of Amazonas River to create grazing for cattle, Brazil.

Daniel Gomez / Controlled burning on the shores of Amazonas River to create grazing for cattle, Brazil.

Igor Shpilenok / The Kirillo-Belovezhsky Monastery on the shores of a lake, dates from the C16th.

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) in breeding plumage sitting on the beach, Indian Shores, Florida

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) with breeding plumage sitting on driftwood, Indian Shores, Florida

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) in breeding plumage, Indian Shores, Florida

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) in sea grass at the beach, collecting nesting material during mating season, Indian Shores, Florida

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) bathing, Indian Shores, Florida

Matthias Breiter / White Spruce (Picea glauca) covering a rise on the edge of a frozen lake Along the tundra-taiga ecotone isolated White Spruce cling on to live along lake shores, North America

Matthias Breiter / White Spruce (Picea glauca) covering a rise on the edge of a frozen lake Along the tundra-taiga ecotone isolated White Spruce cling on to live along lake shores, North America

Matthias Breiter / White Spruce (Picea glauca) covering a rise on the edge of a frozen lake Along the tundra-taiga ecotone isolated White Spruce cling on to live along lake shores, North America

Matthias Breiter / Lodgepole Pine (Larix laricina) standing on a rise on the edge of a frozen lake Along the tundra-taiga Ecotone, isolated stands of trees cling on to live along lake shores, North American Arctic

Matthias Breiter / White Spruce (Picea glauca) the evening sun illuminates a stand on the edge of a frozen lake Along the tundra-taiga ecotone, isolated White Spruce cling to life along lake shores, North America

Matthias Breiter / White Spruce (Picea glauca) the evening sun illuminates a stand on the edge of a frozen lake Along the tundra-taiga ecotone, isolated White Spruce cling to life along lake shores, North America

Mark Moffett / New species of bromeliad found in the forest near the shores of Lake Leopoldo, Venezuela

Ben Osborne / Ancient Pict building near shores of Loch Duich, Scotland, UK

Eric Baccega / Fishing huts on shores of Lake Baikal in winter, Siberia, Russi

Eric Baccega / Fishing community on shores of Lake Baikal in summer, Siberia, Russia

Eric Baccega / Fishing community on shores of Lake Baikal in summer, Siberia, Russia

Onne van der Wal / Wonderful cloud formations off the shores of St Maarten, Caribbean.

Onne van der Wal / Twelve Apostles mountain range, a dramatic backdrop to the shores of Clifton beach, Cape Town, South Africa.

Onne van der Wal / Driftwood on the shores of Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 2001

Onne van der Wal / Atlantic waves on shores of Clifton beach, with the Twelve Apostles mountain range in the background, Cape town, South Africa.

Onne van der Wal / The sandy windswept shores of Elands Bay, South Africa.

Onne van der Wal / A young girl riding on the bow of "Realite", off the shores of St Maarten, Caribbean.

Onne van der Wal / Sailboats sail past the shores of Newport just after the start of the 2006 Newport to Bermuda Race, Rhode Island, USA.

Onne van der Wal / Woman sat reading a book on the bow of a cruising catamaran anchored by eroded granite boulders that line the shores of the Seychelles, Indian Ocean.

Onne van der Wal / Penguins dot the shores of Deception Island, Antarctic Peninsula.

Onne van der Wal / Children running along a beach at sunset on the western shores of South Africa.

Onne van der Wal / A coast guard station on the shores of the Beagle Channel, Chile.

Onne van der Wal / Penguins dot the shores of Deception Island, Antarctica.

Onne van der Wal / The high rises of San Juan towering over the city's long sandy shores, Puerto Rico, Caribbean.

Robert Thompson / Knotted wrack seaweed {Ascophyllum nodosum} on shore at low tide, Strangford Lough, County Down, Northern Ireland, September

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) in breeding plumage sitting on the beach in late afternoon, Indian Shores, Florida

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) pair silhouetted on beach at sunset, Indian Shores, Florida

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) on beach with wings spread to dry wet feathers, Indian Shores, Florida

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) standing on the beach in the late afternoon light, Indian Shores, Florida

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) in breeding plumage standing on beach with wings spread, preening, Indian Shores, Florida

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) close-up of a juvenile's eyes, Indian Shores, Florida

Ben Osborne / Ancient Pict building near shores of Loch Duich Scotland UK