Pete Oxford / Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) two swimming, seen from above, Cenderawasih Bay, West Papua. Indonesia.

Erlend Haarberg / Rimetea village seen from above with mountains in the distance, Alba County, Romania, October 2014.

Solvin Zankl / Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) surfacing seen from above, Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand, July.

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Bonelli's eagle (Aquila fasciatus) juvenile in flight, seen from above, Oman, November

Robert Thompson / Le Pourteillou seen from meadow above Gavarnie, Pyrenees National Park, Franc, June 2013.

Colin Monteath / Dawn over the Dart River Valley and Routeburn Track, and Mount Earnslaw above Diamond Lake, seen from above Glenorchy, Otago, New Zealand

Charlie Summers / The Moon (waning crescent) with Venus (below) and Jupiter (above) as seen 50 minutes before a 0545 sunrise on the morning of 15 July 2012 from Aurora, Colorado, USA

Charlie Summers / The Moon (waning crescent) with Venus (below) and Jupiter (above) as seen just before sunrise on the morning of 15 July 2012 from Aurora, Colorado, USA

Mark Payne-Gill / Munk's devil ray (Mobula munkiana) seen from above sea surface, San Jose Del Cabo, Baja, Mexico

Roland Seitre / Atlantic Spotted Dolphin (Stenella frontalis) seen from above. The Bahamas.

Inaki Relanzon / Cuvier's madagascar swift / Collared iguana (Oplurus cuvieri) seen from above, Sahamalaza National Park, North West Coast, Madagascar, October

David Kjaer / Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) colony seen from above. Troup Head RSPB Reserve, Scotland, April.