Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Giant lobelia (Lobelia rhynchopetalum) plants in mist, Sanetti Plateau, Bale Mountains National Park. Ethiopia, November 2014

Olga Kamenskaya / Vehicles parked on ice on the surface of Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia, March 2008.

Pal Hermansen,Pal Hermansen / Blackbird (Turdus merula) nest with eggs in motor of abandoned car in 'car graveyard' Varmland, Sweden, May

Felicity Lanchester,Felicity Lanchester / View of a BBC filming camp at night, on location for the Sahara episode of the 'Africa' series, Egypt, September 2011.

Paul Harcourt Davies,Paul Harcourt Davies / Appennine Trumpet Gentian (Gentiana dinarica) in flower, on roadside below Gran Sasso, Appennines, Abruzzo, Italy, May

Ernie Janes / Boats on Cley Beach with stormy clouds above, UK November 2012

Gavin Hellier / Anakena beach, monolithic giant stone Moai statues of Ahu Nau Nau, four of which have topknots, Isla de Pascua / Easter Island, Rapa Nui, Chile 2008

Ernie Janes / Wind turbines in offshore windfarm off Great Yarmouth, beach, Norfolk, UK

Piotr Naskrecki / Cross Frog (Oreophryne sp) male from a newly discovered species protecting his clutch of eggs, Papua New Guinea

Juergen Freund / Detail of a soft coral (Dendronephthya sp). Misool, Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia

Konstantin Mikhailov / Alpine meadows with Caucasian scabious (Scabiosa caucasica) in Bezengi gorge, July, 3000m. W-C Caucasus, Kabardino-Balkarskiy nature reserve, Russia

Guy Edwardes / View of pipework and Geothermal power plant, Reykjanesvirkjun, South West Iceland, July 2009