Nick Hawkins / Overhead view of a blue shark (Prionace glauca) off Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. July.

Espen Bergersen / Aerial shot of a fishing boat catching Atlantic herring (Clupea harenguis), with Killer whales (Orcinus orca) and Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) swimming around the boat and large numbers of...

Espen Bergersen / Aerial shot of a fishing boat catching Atlantic herring (Clupea harenguis), with Killer whales (Orcinus orca) and Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) swimming around the boats and large numbers o...

Marie Read / Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) flying over a pattern of kelp and sea foam, photographed from above, St. Paul, Pribilof Islands, Alaska, USA. July.

David Perpinan / Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) incubating eggs on nest, alarm calling as a predator flies overhead, Scotland,UK, June.

David Fleetham / Silhouette of a Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) passes overhead. West Maui, Hawaii.

Gavin Hellier / Timelapse of the view from the summit of Pao de Acucar or Sugarloaf Mountain at sunset, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America - 4K time lapseSeptember 2016. Hellier

Nick Upton / Common swifts (Apus apus) flying overhead, Wiltshire, UK, June. Digital composite image.

Chien Lee / Fan Palm (Licuala sp) trees in lowland rainforest, Nimbokrang, New Guinea, Indonesia

David Tipling / Wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) displaying to bird flying overhead on Albatross Island, South Georgia, January

Jordi Chias / Giant Manta (Manta birostris) going overhead, Santa Maria Island, Azores, Atlantic Ocean

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