Bence Mate / Great egrets (Ardea alba) and Grey heron (Ardea cinerea) squabbling over fish, with some in flight. Blurred motion photograph, Lake Csaj, Pusztaszer, Hungary. February.

Edwin Giesbers / Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) flying, blurred motion. Costa Rica.

Chris & Monique Fallows / Indo Pacific Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) feeding on sardines (Sardina pilchardus), Isla Mujeres, Mexico, March.

Dr. Axel Gebauer / Oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) abstract, Upper Lusatia Heath and Pond Landscape, Upper Lusatia UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Germany

Denis-Huot / Spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) hunting Lesser flamingoes (Phoenicopterus minor) Lake Nakuru, Kenya

Mike Potts / Mendenhall Glacier in severe retreat, with blue ice indicating where the glacier has recently calved. Juneau Alaska USA, May 2010

Ashley Cooper / Man holding onto post during severe storm with hurricane force winds, Blackpool, England, UK, November 2007.

Ashley Cooper / Blackpool battered by storms on 18 January 2007. The storms that day killed 13 people across the UK in hurricane force winds. January 2007

Ashley Cooper / Aeroplane on the runway at East Midlands Airport in foggy conditions. December 2006

Ashley Cooper / Cars driving on the M1 motorway, near Loughborough in evening fog. England, UK, December 2006

Ashley Cooper / Bus on the Dunmail Raise in a blizzard, Lake District, England, UK. December 2010

Ashley Cooper / Snow plough on Dunmail Raise, Lake District, England, UK. December 2010