Gary Bell/ Oceanwide / Granite rocks with lichen and Milky Way, Bicheno, Tasmania, Australia

Cyril Ruoso / Ringed-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) amongst granite rocks in cave. Lemurs lick minerals from the rocks. Anja Community Reserve, Madagascar.

Ross Hoddinott / Hawthorn tree and granite outcrop at Holwell tor, sunrise and mist, Dartmoor National Park, Devon, UK. October 2018.

Jeff Foott / Granite cliff in mist, El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, California

Tui De Roy / Snares Crested penguin (Eudyptes robustus) group walking up granite slope into Oleander forest, Station Point colony. Snares Island, New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands.

Ingo Arndt / Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota, USA, September 2009

Tim Fitzharris / Milky Way over Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California

Tim Fitzharris / Sunrise over Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California

Tim Fitzharris / Sunrise over Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California

Jack Dykinga / Granite Boulders in canyon, Little Dragoon Mountains in background in sunset light, Texas, USA, August.

Floris van Breugel / The first rays of sunshine above the Sierra Crest, illuminating granite, Mitre Basin, Sierra Nevada, Sequoia National Park, California, USA, August

Pete Oxford / Bottle Mountain rising out of rainforest, Rupununi, Guyana