Guy Edwardes / Colmer's Hill, Bridport, Dorset, England, UK. December 2016.

Guy Edwardes / Fairy Pools and Black Cuillins, Glen Brittle, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK. February 2017.

Paul Williams / Lightning storm, Western Australia. December 2013. Image stacking / composite composed of three consecutive images.

Bruno D'Amicis / Common mulleins (Verbascum thapsus), Poppies (Papaver rhoeas), and Daisies flowering in mountain pasture. Gran Sasso National Park, Central Apennines, Abruzzo, Italy, June.

Five Films / Timelapse of a lightning storm at night, Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda, April 2014.

Five Films / Timelapse of a lightning storm at night, Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda, April 2014.

Wim van den Heever / King penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) at sunrise, Falklands. Highly honoured in the Ocean View Category of the Nature's Best Windland Smith Rice Ocean View Competition 2017

Sergey Gorshkov / Plume of volcanic ash lit by a basaltic lava flow from the Tolbachik volcano complex, Kamchatka, Far East Russia, eruption lasted from December 22nd 2012 through to January 2nd 2013

Denis-Huot / Masai giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) herd at sunrise, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya. November.

Ingo Arndt / Christmas Island Red Crabs (Gecarcoidea natalis) shortly before sunrise sitting on rock ready for spawning, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australian Territory

Ingo Arndt / Flock of Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) perched at roosting tree, overwintering, Steiermark, Austria

Ingo Arndt / Aerial view of Milky Way Bay, Rock Islands, Palau, Micronesia. April 2009