Nick Upton / St. Enedoc Church, where Sir John Betjeman, Poet Laureate is buried. Trebetherick, Cornwall, UK.

Rick Tomlinson / Whalers cemetery at Grytviken, where Ernest Shackleton was buried in 1922. South Georgia, February 2007.

Michele Westmorland / Trees planted in memory of US soldiers at WWII gravesite, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

Michele Westmorland / Trees planted in memory of US soldiers at WWII gravesite, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

Michele Westmorland / Trees planted in memory of US soldiers at WWII gravesite, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

Michele Westmorland / Trees planted in memory of US soldiers at WWII gravesite, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

Igor Shpilenok / Villagers come to pay their respect to the dead in the village graveyard on Radunitsa (Tuesday of St. Thomas week), Chukhrai, Bryansk Province, Russia

Igor Shpilenok / Village burial, Chukhrai, Bryansk Province, Russia. Villagers pull the coffin of the late Evdokiya Balakhonva to the graveyard for burial.

Peter Lewis / Primroses growing in graveyard on hillside, North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Western Isles, Scotland, UK

Chris O'Reilly / Mature Common elder {Sambucus nigra} tree flowering in a graveyard, Derbyshire, UK

Nick Turner / St. Mary's Church and graveyard in the winter, Painswick, Gloucestershire, England

Brian Lightfoot / Common primrose {Primula vulgaris} Celandine and Daffodils in graveyard Sutherland, Scotland, UK

Jabruson / Gorilla graveyard, Parc National des Volcans, Virunga, Dem Rep Congo

Jabruson / Gorilla graveyard, Parc National des Volcans, Virunga, Dem Rep Congo

Shattil & Rozinski / American Red fox {Vulpes vulpes} in cemetery passing memorial to 'Fox', Colorado, USA

Shattil & Rozinski / American Red fox {Vulpes vulpes} with cubs in cemetery, Colorado, USA

Shattil & Rozinski / American Red fox {Vulpes vulpes} suckling cubs in cemetery, Colorado, USA

Nick Turner / Church and churchyard with Yew trees in snow, Painswick, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK.

Ross Hoddinott / Snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) flowerinf in churchyard. Poundstock Church, Cornwall, UK.

Kim Taylor / Barn owl {Tyto alba} landing on tombstone in church graveyard. Captive UK.

Igor Shpilenok / Porzhensky Pogost graveyard & C17th St George Church in Glazovo village in mist, Russia.

Igor Shpilenok / Kenozersky National Park - Porzhensky Pogost graveyard & C17th St George Church, Glazovo, Russia.

Igor Shpilenok / Kenozersky National Park - Porzhensky Pogost graveyard & C17th St George Church Glazovo, Russia.

Igor Shpilenok / Kenozersky National Park - Porzhensky Pogost graveyard & C17th St George Church, Glazovo, Russia.

Igor Shpilenok / Kenozersky National Park - Porzhensky Pogost graveyard of C17th St George Church, Russia.

DAVID TIPLING / Churchyard with stump of Gilbert White's yew tree. Selborne, Hampshire, England

Paul Hobson / Roe deer group in graveyard {Capreolus capreolus} Scotland

Nick Turner / Painswick churchyard with Yew trees, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK

Niall Benvie / Ancient stone village, St Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Graveyard.

Brian Lightfoot / Mixed species of flowers growing in an old graveyard in Scotland.

Martha Holmes / Sir Ernest Shackleton's grave, Grytviken whaling station, South Georgia, Falkland Islands

Jim Brandenburg / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) graveyard with Park Rangers looking at skull, Namibia

Jim Brandenburg / African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) graveyard with Park Rangers on horseback, Namibia

Brian Lightfoot / Mixed spring flowers including Meadow Saxafrage and Celandine

Pal Hermansen / Willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) chick perched and begging for food. Adult bird lands on the perch and feeds the chick then leaves the frame, Car Graveyard, Bilkyrkogarden Kyrko Mosse, Sweden.

David Fleetham / USS Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor, a graveyard for the men lost aboard the ship when it sank during the Pearl Harbor attack, Oahu, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.

Guy Edwardes / Ammonite Fossil, Ammonite Graveyard, Monmouth Beach, Lyme Regis, Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, Dorset, UK, April.

Guy Edwardes / Ammonite Fossil, Ammonite Graveyard, Monmouth Beach, Lyme Regis, Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, Dorset, UK, April.

Claudio Contreras / Aerial view of car graveyard, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, May

Guy Edwardes / Ammonite Graveyard at sunrise, Monmouth Beach, Lyme Regis, Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, Dorset, England, UK