Oscar Dewhurst / Mute swan (Cygnus olor) swimming with cygnets in misty lake in morning light. Richmond Park, London, England, UK. May.

Guy Edwardes / Barn owl (Tyto alba) in flight above post and wildflowers, in morning light. The Hawk Conservancy Trust, Hampshire, England, UK. July. Captive.

Guy Edwardes / Field of flowering Poppies (Papaver rhoeas) at sunrise, Val d'Orcia, Tuscany, Italy. May 2019.

Guy Edwardes / Glastonbury Tor at sunrise surrounded by early morning mist. View from Walton Hill, Somerset, England, UK. June 2019.

Ingo Arndt / Snow covered Cerro Paine Grande in the Cordillera Paine massif. At sunrise, Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile. April 2017.

Heather Angel / Man using pole to propel bamboo raft on Lijang / Li River, Karst peaks beyond. At dawn, Lijiang River Scenic Zone, Yangshuo county, Guangxi, China.

Sven Zacek / Bog surrounding river in morning light. Emajoe Suursoo Nature Reserve, Tartumaa, Estonia. October 2015.

Sven Zacek / Sunrise over bog with trees reflected in pool. Endla Nature Reserve, Jogevamaa, Central Estonia. October 2015.

Paul Hobson / Red deer (Cervus elaphus) herd during rut in morning light. Derbyshire, England, UK. October.

Paul Hobson / Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) cub looking at camera, in morning. Sheffield, England, UK. June.

Guy Edwardes / Sunrise through stone at Men-An-Tol, Morvah, Cornwall, England, UK. September 2016.

Guy Edwardes / Dawn mist around Hambledon Hill from Bullbarrow Hill, Cranbourne Chase, Dorset, England, UK. February 2016.

Guy Edwardes / Sunrise over the Marshwood Vale, West Dorset from Quar Hill, Chideock, Dorset, England, UK. May 2013.

Guy Edwardes / Corfe Castle in morning mist, Corfe, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK. September 2013.

Guy Edwardes / Godrevy Lighthouse, St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK. September 2015.

Guy Edwardes / The Cobb, Lyme Regis, Jurassic Coast, Dorset, England, UK. December 2010.

Guy Edwardes / Wimborne Minster at dawn, Dorset, England, UK. August 2015.

Guy Edwardes / Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) covered slope with Colmer's Hill in background, Eype Down, Bridport, Dorset, England, UK. May 2014.

Guy Edwardes / Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) on Eype Down with Colmer's Hill in background, Bridport, Dorset, England, UK. May 2014.

Guy Edwardes / Colmer's Hill in mist, Bridport, Dorset, England, UK. May 2014.

Guy Edwardes / Pilsdon Pen and Marshwood Vale in morning mist, Quarr Hill, Dorset, England, UK. May 2014.

Guy Edwardes / Colmer's Hill at sunrise, Bridport, Dorset, England, UK. May 2014.

Guy Edwardes / Colmer's Hill at sunrise, Bridport, Dorset, England, UK. May 2014.

Guy Edwardes / Colmer's Hill, Bridport, Dorset, England, UK. April 2016.

Guy Edwardes / View from Colmer's Hill, Bridport, Dorset, England, UK. April 2016.

Guy Edwardes / Colmer's Hill, Bridport, Dorset, England, UK. April 2016.

Guy Edwardes / View from Colmer's Hill over countryside with low lying mist, Bridport, Dorset, England, UK. April 2016.

Guy Edwardes / Callanish Stone Circle, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK. March 2015.

Guy Edwardes / Callanish Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK. March 2015.

Guy Edwardes / Callanish Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK. March 2015.

Guy Edwardes / Callanish Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK. March 2015.

Guy Edwardes / Callanish Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK. March 2015.

Guy Edwardes / Callanish Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK. March 2015.

Guy Edwardes / Callanish Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK. March 2015.

Guy Edwardes / Callanish Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK. March 2015.

Guy Edwardes / Sunrise over Colmer's Hill, Bridport, Dorset, England, UK. June 2010.

Guy Edwardes / Sunrise over Colmer's Hill, Bridport, Dorset, England, UK. June 2010.

Guy Edwardes / Loch Ba, Rannoch Moor, Highlands, Scotland, UK. September 2013.

Guy Edwardes / Coastal cottages at twilight, Portree, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK. January 2014.

Guy Edwardes / View over Loch Cill Chriosd to Beinn na Caillichin, Red Cuillins, Strath Suardal, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK. January 2014.

Eric Baccega / Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) female, Huan Huan, out in her enclosure in mist, Captive at Beauval Zoo, Saint Aignan sur Cher, France. The mist is created artificially by machine, in order to cr...

Eric Baccega / Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) female, Huan Huan, out in her enclosure in mist, Captive at Beauval Zoo, Saint Aignan sur Cher, France The mist is created artificially by machine, in order to cr...

Theo Bosboom / Common blue damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum) covered in dew in morning and unable to fly, Hondenven, Tubbergen, the Netherlands, August.

Ross Hoddinott / Misty morning view of Exmoor countryside from Winsford Hill, Exmoor National Park, Somerset, UK. October 2016.

Ross Hoddinott / Kilchurn Castle, sunrise, early morning mist and light, a ruin on a rocky peninsula, the northeastern end of Loch Awe, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK. March 2017.

Ingo Arndt / Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus) web with dew drops, at sunrise, Germany, August.

Neil Aldridge / Lioness (Panthera leo) yawning in early morning light on Kariega Game Reserve, South Africa.

Andy Rouse / Great crested grebes (Podiceps cristatus) pair in courtship 'weed dance' in morning light, Wales, UK, February.

Andy Rouse / Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) swimming, backlit with morning light forming a bokeh affect on the water, Wales, UK, February. Highly commended in the Habitat Category of the BWPA (British W...

Andy Rouse / Mute swan (Cygnus olor) stretching in morning light, UK, February.

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

Floris van Breugel / Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens) in morning sun, Anza-Borrego State Park, California, USA February

Wim van den Heever / Tranquil landscape with African elephant (Loxodonta africana) and rays of sunlight at sunrise, Masai Mara, Kenya.

Wim van den Heever / Blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) herd silhouetted against the rising sun with clouds in the background. Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa

Fabrice Cahez / Morning mist over the countryside, Aubrac, France, July 2015.

Richard Du Toit / Black wildebeest (Connochaetus gnou) bull silhouetted at dawn, Rietvlei Nature Reserve, Gauteng Province, South Africa.

Andy Rouse / Mute swan (Cygnus olor) with wings raised defensively at sunrise, Wales, UK, April.

Ross Hoddinott / Corfe Castle, early morning llight and mist, Corfe Castle, Dorset, UK. September 2014.

Orsolya Haarberg / View over the Lysefjorden from the Preikestolen / Pulpit rock, Forsand, Rogaland, Norway. June 2012.

Denis-Huot / Masai giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi), at sunrise, Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya. March.

John Waters / River Brue, at dawn with Glastonbury Tor in background, Somerset, UK, August.

Erlend Haarberg / Lysefjorden viewed from the Preikestolen (Pulpit rock) on misty summer morning with sun rays shining down, Forsand, Rogaland, Norway.

David Tipling / Red deer (Cervus elaphus) stag during rut on a misty dawn in Richmond Park National Nature Reserve, London, UK, October.

David Pattyn / Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) adult with a small fish on a misty morning. The Netherlands.May 2014

Floris van Breugel / Mount Fitz Roy at dawn on a snowy winter morning, Patagonia region of Argentina near El Chalten, June 2014.

Jack Dykinga / Yuccas (Yucca elata) silhouetted against the moon and morning light, White Sands National Park, New Mexico. January.

David Noton / Dawn over the mountains and Nam Song River at Vang Vieng, Laos, March 2009.

David Noton / Cyclists riding bikes along riverside path at dawn, near Vang Vieng, Laos, March 2009.

David Noton / Autumn mist in Dee Valley (Dyffryn Dyfrdwy) at Horseshoe falls, near Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales, UK, November 2013.

David Noton / Hot air balloon over the Temples of Bagan at dawn, Myanmar, November 2012.

Hougaard Malan / Misty morning in the Drakensberg viewed from behind the Organ Pipes. Cathedral Peak Region, Drakensberg, South Africa. November 2012.

Hougaard Malan / Tugela falls surrounded by clouds on a misty morning. Royal Natal National Park, Drakensberg, South Africa. November 2010.

Hougaard Malan / Tugela falls surrounded by clouds on a misty morning. Royal Natal National Park, Drakensberg, South Africa. November 2010.

Hougaard Malan / Green desert valley in morning light after plentiful rains. Namib Rand, Namibia. April 2011.

Hougaard Malan / Quiver tree with sociable weaver (Philetairus socius) nest in morning light. Quiver Tree Forest, Keetmanshoop, Namibia. March 2011.

Hougaard Malan / View from a high dune across desert landscape in morning light. Namib Rand, Namibia. April 2012.

Radomir Jakubowski / Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) male on mountainside at sunrise, Bernese Alps, Switzerland, July. Received honourable mention in the Big Picture Competition awards 2014. Nominated in the Melvita Nature Image...

Andy Trowbridge / Arctic Fox (Alopex / Vulpes lagopus) portrait in early morning light, during moult from grey summer fur to winter white. Dovrefjell National Park, Norway, September.

Tim Laman / Aerial view of morning mist above the Tiputini River in Yasuni National Park, Francisco de Orellana Province, Ecuador, July.

Nick Garbutt / Greater Flamingos (Phoenicopterus roseus) feeding in lake at sunrise at Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary (Ramsar site), with the Dubai skyline in the background and the first rays of the sun catching th...

Sven Zacek / Moose (Alces alces) herd on a cold -18 C morning amongst frozen willow bushes, with snow, in Tartumaa, Estonia. January. Highly commended in the Mammals category of the GDT competition 2013.

Bernard Castelein / Sunrise over wetland in Klein Schietveld, heatland, Brasschaat, Belgium, April

Graham Eaton / Leatherback Turtle Hatchling (Dermochelys coriacea) crossing a beach towards the sea at sunrise, Cayenne, French Guiana, July

Eric Baccega / On a misty morning, female Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) standing up in alert and looking around with her cubs for danger, while feeding on sedges, Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary, Briti...

Jussi Murtosaari / Whooper Swans (Cygnus cygnus) on a frozen lake, Finland, January

Andrew Parkinson / Gannet (Morus bassanus) adult, backlit by the morning sun, coming in to land in colony, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK. September

Ben Hall / Mute swan (Cygnus olor) stretching its wings backlit at dawn, Poynton, Cheshire, UK, December. Highly honoured in the Bird Category of the Windland Awards of Natures Best Photography Competition 2016...

Ben Hall / Great crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus) pair performing courtship display at dawn, backlit with surrounding by mist, Cheshire, UK, March

Paul Harcourt Davies,Paul Harcourt Davies / Low lying cloud / mist over the Piano Grande in the early morning, Sibillini, Norcia, Italy, June 2010

Jurgen Freund / Sarus Cranes (Grus antigone) Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia

Andy Rouse / Barn Owl (Tyto alba) in flight in dawn light. UK, Europe.

Benjamin Barthelemy,Benjamin Barthelemy / Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) hauled out on a beach at sunrise, Donna Nook Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust Reserve, Lincolnshire, England, UK, January.

Jurgen Freund / Dramatic early morning aerial of Wilpena Pound, Flinders Ranges National Park, South Australia, June 2011

Jurgen Freund,Jurgen Freund / Dramatic early morning aerial of Wilpena Pound, Flinders Ranges National Park, South Australia, June 2011

Juan Carlos Munoz,Juan Carlos Munoz / Lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor) flock in lake in morning, Lake Nakuru NP, Rift Valley, Kenya

Sven Zacek,Sven Zacek / Calm morning before sunrise over a bog lake. Southern Estonia, July 2006.