Floris van Breugel / Sand dunes reflecting pink and orange glowing colours from the sky at sunset. Death Valley National Park, California, USA. November 2009. Highly Commended in the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photoga...

Eric Baccega / Salt caravans made up of hundreds of Dromedary camels (Camelus dromedarius) and their pullers transporting salt slabs cut from Lake Assale to the Mekele Market, Danakil depression, Afar region, Ethiop...

Jack Dykinga / Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus) chicks in nest in Saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) at sunset, Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona, USA, May.

Axel Gomille,Axel Gomille / Camel herder with Dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius) Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India

David Noton / James' flamingos (Phoenicoparrus jamesi) on Lake Colorada in the remote region of high desert, altiplano and volcanoes near Tapaquilcha, Bolivia, December 2009

Neil Lucas / Dragons blood trees (Dracena cinnibaris) and Desert rose (Adenium obesum socotranum) in Momi Valley, Socotra Island, Yemen, February 2008

Patricio Robles Gil / Barrel cactus (Ferocactus pilosus) Chihuahuan desert, Mexico

Jack Dykinga / Birdcage evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides) and Desert sand verbena (Abronia villosa) flowering in desert, Pinta Sands, Sierra Pinta Mountains, Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona, USA

Jack Dykinga / Silhouette of Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) at sunset, Joshua Forest Parkway, Arizona, USA

Jack Dykinga / Birdcage evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides) growing in sand dunes, with beetle tracks in the sand, East Mojave Desert, California, USA

Jack Dykinga / Birdcage evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides) and Desert sand verbena (Abronia villosa) flowering in desert, Pinta Sands, Sierra Pinta Mountains, Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, Arizona, USA

Jack Dykinga / Cacti in snow with fog at sunrise, Saguaro National Park, Arizona, USA