Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) trees in autumn, Rocky Mountains, Colorado

Alex Hyde / European Cave Spider (Meta menardi) in limestone cave. Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia. January.

Floris van Breugel / Aurora borealis / Northern Lights seen from entrance to tent, Brooks Range, Gates of the Arctic National Park, Alaska, USA, September 2014.

Floris van Breugel / Ice cave with melt water running through, Mendenhall Glacier, Juneau, Alaska, USA, August 2014.

Tim Laman / Rainforest interior views, looking up.

Pal Hermansen / Silhouette of a Blue tit (Cyanistes / Parus caeruleus) seen through the windscreen of an old car, Bastnas, Sweden, December. Winner of the Fritz Polking Prize at the GDT competition 2013 and winner of...

Cyril Ruoso / Sun shining down through the tropical rainforest canopy, Cameroon

Cyril Ruoso / Rainforest interior, Peru

Steven Kazlowski / Dall sheep (Ovis dalli) solitary animal at sunset with a storm moving across the sky, Denali National Park, interior Alaska, USA

Thomas Marent / Atlas Beetle (Chalcosoma caucasus) in rainforest, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

Laurent Geslin / House mouse (Mus musculus) walking down sloping beam in light from a window. Switzerland. Captive, May. Property released

Stephen Dalton / Domestic cat, British blue cat leaping into the air, UK