Andy Rouse / Maasai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) silhouetted by beams of light from setting sun, Maasai Mara, Kenya, Africa. Winner of the African section of the Natures Best Windland Smith Rice...

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

Sandra Bartocha / Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) trees in snowy woodland in evening sunlight, Potsdam, Germany, January.

Andy Rouse / Maasai Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) under setting sun Maasai Mara, Kenya, Africa

Merryn Thomas / Broadhaven Beach, Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Pembrokeshire, Wales, March 2012.

Sven Zacek / Rays of sunshine behind pine trees, Southern Estonia, May early morning.

Felicity Lanchester,Felicity Lanchester / Cloud iridescence forming above a cumulonimbus cloud, caused by light refraction through individual water droplets and ice crystals at high altitude, Sierra Leone.

Ben Cranke / Springbok (Antidorcas marsupialis) at dawn, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa

Marie Read / Sun beams passing through misty trees, Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, New York, USA. October 2008. Highly Honored in Nature's Best 2010 competition.

Aflo / Y-11404 View of Planet Earth above Moon

Aflo / Y-12304 Huge full moon above Emerald Bay at sunset, Lake Tahoe, California USA

Aflo / Y-10805 Forked lightning racing across sky at night