Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Sessile oak (Quercus petraea) silhouetted in the afternoon light, Atlantic Oakwoods of Sunart, Scotland, May.

Alex Mustard / Donkey dung sea cucumber (Holothuria mexicana) lifting its head up from the sand to spawn in late afternoon, East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies, Caribbean Sea.

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus) and Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) in afternoon light on a urban loch. Scotland, December.

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus) and Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) in afternoon light on an urban loch. Scotland, December.

Fergus Gill / 2020VISION / Whooper Swans (Cygnus cygnus) in afternoon light on a urban loch. Scotland, November.

Ben Hall / 2020VISION / View over Buttermere in late afternoon from Fleetwith Pike, Lake District NP, Cumbria, England, UK, November

Ben Osborne / African lions (Panthera leo) large pride rests in the late afternoon prior to heading out for a night hunt, Savuti, Northern Botswana. Taken on location for BBC Planet Earth series, 2005

Sven Zacek / Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus) on snow in late afternoon light. Virumaa, Estonia, Europe, March.

Christian Ziegler / Beach Spiderlily (Hymenocallis littoralis) opens its flowers in late afternoon and releases a sweet scent soon after sunset to attract the moths that pollinate it, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Ross Hoddinott / Hartland Quay in afternoon light. North Devon, UK, February 2011.

Tim Laman / Heavy afternoon rain at Bog Camp in the Foja Mountains at 1650 m. Foja Mountains, Papua, Indonesia, 2008. (taken during Conservation International Rapid Assessment Program expedition)

Sandesh Kadur / Women of the Bodo community walking across an old wooden bridge on a hot pre-monsoon afternoon in the foothills of the Bhutan Himalayas, Assam, India, September 2009