Martin Dohrn / Group of lions (Panthera leo) at night, Masai Mara, Kenya. Photographed using 'Starlight Camera' technology without artificial lighting.

Ross Hoddinott / Colmers Hill in morning mist, near Bridport, Dorset, UK. September 2012.

Sandra Bartocha / Ghost wood - European Beech (Fagus sylvatica), woodland Nienhagen, Germany, April

Sandra Bartocha / Downy / European white birch (Betula pubescens) tree trunks in the mist, Waldstadt, Potsdam, Germany, November

David Noton / Snow on the trees branches. Cadbury Castle, Somerset, England, January 2010.

Ernie Janes / Barn owl (Tyto alba) in flight, viewed through car windscreen at night, Norfolk, UK, model released. Digital composite

Edwin Giesbers / White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) in flight over grassland. The Netherlands.

Sergey Gorshkov / Salmon (Salmonidae) migrating to spawn in Lake Kuril, Kamchatka, Far East Russia, August

Inaki Relanzon / Star trails above Baobab trees (Adansonia za) at night, Zombitse National Park, Madagascar, June 2010

Alex Hyde / Beech woodland in dense fog. Derbyshire, UK, November

Jeff Rotman / Lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris) close up of eye, Bimini, Bahamas

Pete Oxford / Finch specimens at the Charles Darwin Research Station, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, L to R Top: Large Ground Finch (Geospiza magnirostris), Woodpecker Finch (Cactospiza pallidu...