Georgette Douwma / Gorgonian / Sea whip coral (Ellisella ceratophyta), West Papua, Indonesia.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red squirrel, (Sciurus vulgaris), silhouetted on stump at dawn, Scotland, UK.March

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red deer, (Cervus elaphus), stag silhouetted at sunset, Scotland, UK.February

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red deer, (Cervus elaphus), stags silhouetted at sunset in winter, Scotland, UK.February

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red deer, (Cervus elaphus), stags silhouetted at sunset in winter, Scotland, UK.February

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Mountain hare, (Lepus timidus), four animals on snowy hillside in winter, Scotland, UK, February.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Beetle, (Rhagonycha fulva), feeding on oxeye daisy flower, Scotland, UK, July.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Small pool on bog moorland, Tulloch Moor, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK, August.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Creative impression of Silver birch (Betula pendula) foliage, Creagellachie NNR, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK.May

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red squirrel, (Sciurus vulgaris), two backlit on pine branch, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK.May

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red squirrel, (Sciurus vulgaris), three animals backlit on pine branch, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, UK.May

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Sunset over the Cullin Mountains from Elgol shoreline, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK, April.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Rocky shoreline, Loch Scavaig and view to Cuillin mountians, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK, April.