Gavin Hellier / Buddhist monks relaxing at Ta Phrohm Temple, Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Cambodia 2010. Model released.

Floris van Breugel / Natural iridescent oil film from decaying leaves at the surface of a pool, with a cottonwood leaf floating. Escalante National Monument, Utah. November.

Laurie Campbell / Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) mature tree in evening light, Abernethy Forest RSPB Reserve, Cairngorms National Park, August

Michele Westmorland / Underwater Sculpture Gallery off Molinere Point, created by Jason de Caires Taylor. Colonised by sea life, Grenada, West-Indies, Caribbean, May 2009. No release.

Christophe Courteau / Rusty barrels at the historical site of Virgohamna where, in 1897, the hydrogen balloon 'Omen' (the Eagle) sailed northward in a failed attempt to reach the north pole with 3 Swedish ballooners led by...

Inaki Relanzon / Thousand-year-old Canary Juniper, (Juniperus turbinata canariensis/ Juniperus phoenicea var. turbinata ) against a dusky sky. El Sabinar, El Hierro Island, Canary Islands, February 2011.

Mark Taylor / 'The Marble Cathedrals' - marble rocks dissolved and sculpted by water. Rio Tranquilo, Chile, March 2010.

Adrian Davies / Polished section through Olive tree trunk (Olea europaea), showing growth rings.

Juan Carlos Munoz / Trunk of an Italian stone pine tree (Pinus pinea) in Sierra de Andujar Natural Park. Andalusia, Spain, Feb 2010

Juan Carlos Munoz / Bark of an Italian stone pine (Pinus pinea) in Sierra de Andujar Natural Park. Andalusia, Spain, Feb 2010

Angelo Gandolfi / An old Cork Oak (Quercus) growing over a rock. February, Corsica island, France. February 2010

Nick Garbutt / Bottle Baobab (Adansonia rubrostipa) over 3000 years old. Lake Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, South West Madagascar.

Neil Lucas / Ancient Oak tree (Quercus) Savernake Forest, Wiltshire, UK

Neil Lucas / Stems of Giant bamboo (Cathariostachys) Rakusai Bamboo Park, Japan

Edwin Giesbers / Ice patterns, with leaves frozen beneath the surface, the Netherlands

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lundgren / Dahlia anemone (Urticina felina) in the process of opening / retracting tentacles, Saltstraumen, Bod, Norway, October 2008 Wild Wonders kids book.

Piotr Naskrecki / Mantid (Liturgusa sp) female with parasitic nematode that has just emerged from her body, killing her in the process, Suriname

Andrew Cooper / Cider maker Ron Barter treating hay as part of the production process. Devon, UK, November 2010.

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Cross section of recently felled trees as part of thinning process, Glenfeshie, Cairngorms NP, Scotland, UK, October 2011

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Cross section of recently felled trees as part of thinning process, Glenfeshie, Cairngorms NP, Scotland, UK, October 2011

Peter Cairns / 2020VISION / Cross section of recently felled trees as part of thinning process, Glenfeshie, Cairngorms NP, Scotland, UK, October 2011. Did you know? Conserving habitats doesn't just mean planting trees; sometimes...

Juergen Freund / Dried sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea) or beche-de-mer gathered from daily gleaning activities undergoing the drying process. Coastal communities are the main supplier of this high value Chinese delicacy...

Juergen Freund / Sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea) or beche-de-mer gathered from daily gleaning activities undergoing the drying process. Coastal communities are the main supplier of this high value Chinese delicacy. Gree...

Juergen Freund / Harvested coral used for making lime for betelnut chewing, ready for the drying and burning process. These branching stag-horn corals (Acropora) are amongst the fastest growing corals at about 10 cm/...

Juergen Freund / Shrink wrapped Yellowfin tuna steak for export, Chen Woo processing plant, Bitung, Sulawesi, Indonesia, October 2009. Fish undergoes a "clear smoke" process which turns the dull maroon fish colour int...

Juergen Freund / Harvested seaweed / red algae (Kappaphycus alvarezii) in the process of drying on beach, a commerical crop for export, Philippines, May 2006.

Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) interacting with diver underwater, Lundy Island, Bristol Channel, England, UK, May. Photographer quote: 'Seal photography is a very interactive process, with the seals j...

Fergus Gill / Grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) couple fighting as part of the mating process, with Redshank (Tringa totanus) in the foreground. Northern Scotland, October .

Chien Lee / Army Ant (Leptogenys sp) group with subdued millipede in the process of transporting it back to their nest, Gunung Mulu National Park, Malaysia

Tim Laman / A man processing 'Sago' the primary staple food on Waigeo Island. First the pulp of the Sago Palm tree is gathered. The starch is then extracted by water filtered through a sieve of coconut palm leaf...

Tim Laman / A man processing 'Sago' the primary staple food on Waigeo Island. First the pulp of the Sago Palm tree is gathered. The starch is then extracted by water filtered through a sieve of coconut palm leaf...

Tim Laman / A man processing 'Sago' the primary staple food on Waigeo Island. First the pulp of the Sago Palm tree is gathered. The starch is then extracted by water filtered through a sieve of coconut palm leaf...

Tim Laman / Processing 'Sago' the primary staple food on Waigeo Island. First the pulp of the Sago Palm tree is gathered. The starch is then extracted by water filtered through a sieve of coconut palm leaf cover,...

Tim Laman / A man processing 'Sago' the primary staple food on Waigeo Island. First the pulp of the Sago Palm tree is gathered. The starch is then extracted by water filtered through a sieve of coconut palm leaf...

Claudio Contreras / Pair of Northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) sparring, with one in process of annual moult, Guadalupe Island Biosphere Reserve, off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, April

Daniel Heuclin / European grass snake (Natrix natrix) close-up of female in the process of laying eggs. France, Europe. Controlled conditions..

Graham Eaton / A 'glacial erratic' or boulder deposited by retreating ice, outside Cwm Idwal, Snowdonia National Park, Wales, January 2009

Juergen Freund / Sample of Green algae from Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008. To store the algae, specimens are pressed and dried out in a herbarium press, this simple process preser...

Juergen Freund / Sample of Green algae {Caulerpa filicoides} from Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008. To store the algae, specimens are pressed and dried out in a herbarium press, this...

Juergen Freund / Sample of Green algae {Caulerpa sp} from Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008. To store the algae, specimens are pressed and dried out in a herbarium press, this simple...

Juergen Freund / Sample of Green algae {Caulerpa racemosa} from Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008. To store the algae, specimens are pressed and dried out in a herbarium press, this s...

Juergen Freund / Sample of Green algae {Caulerpa racemosa} from Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008. To store the algae, specimens are pressed and dried out in a herbarium press, this s...

Juergen Freund / Sample of Green algae {Halimeda sp} from Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008. To store the algae, specimens are pressed and dried out in a herbarium press, this simple...

Juergen Freund / Sample of Green algae from Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008. To store the algae, specimens are pressed and dried out in a herbarium press, this simple process preser...

Juergen Freund / Sample of Green algae from Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008. To store the algae, specimens are pressed and dried out in a herbarium press, this simple process preser...

Juergen Freund / Sample of Green algae {Caulerpa crassifolia} from Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008. To store the algae, specimens are pressed and dried out in a herbarium press, thi...

Juergen Freund / Sample of Brown algae from Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008. To store the algae, specimens are pressed and dried out in a herbarium press, this simple process preser...

Juergen Freund / Sample of Green algae {Tydemania sp} from Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008. To store the algae, specimens are pressed and dried out in a herbarium press, this simpl...

Juergen Freund / Sample of Green algae from Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008. To store the algae, specimens are pressed and dried out in a herbarium press, this simple process preser...

Juergen Freund / Sample of Algae from Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008. To store the algae, specimens are pressed and dried out in a herbarium press, this simple process preserves th...

Juergen Freund / Sample of Brown algae {Sarcassum cf myriosystum} from Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008. To store the algae, specimens are pressed and dried out in a herbarium press,...

Juergen Freund / Sample of Brown algae {Sarcassum cf myriosystum} from Coral Reef census, Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia, April 2008. To store the algae, specimens are pressed and dried out in a herbarium press,...

Gerrit Vyn / Adult male American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) vocalising and displaying its large white shoulder plumes during courtship period. This bird is in the process of inflating its esophagus during voc...

Dave Bevan / Laying an old carpet over a compost heap to keep the heat in and speed up the composting process, UK, model released

Ross Hoddinott / Swayling - the process of burning off the gorse or heather to enable the fresh grass underneath to grow and to prevent the gorse from taking over, near Haytor, Dartmoor National Park, Devon. UK. March...

Heidi & Hans-Juergen Koch / Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) swarm, in the process of establishing and building a new nest, Bee Station at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University of Wurzburg, Germany

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Sailboat near iceberg with shallow pool created by pounding waves and melting process accelerated by global warming, Antarctica

Pete Oxford / Papyrus swamps & channels with termite islands starting the process of 'land reclamation' from the swamps, Okavango Delta, Botswana, Southern Africa

Pete Oxford / Papyrus swamps & channels with termite islands starting the process of 'land reclamation' from the swamps. Okavango Delta, Botswana, Southern Africa

PREMAPHOTOS / Giant millipede {Epibolus pulchripes} male mounting another male, who is in the process of courting a female, tropical dry forest, Kenya

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Detail of floating blue iceberg eroded by melting process accelerated by global warming and wave action, early fall, Cumberland Bay West, South Georgia Island, Southern Ocean, Antarctic Convergence

Fred Bavendam / Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) hatchling sitting among eggs, one of which is in the process of hatching, South Australia, Australia

Pete Oxford / Papyrus swamps & channels with termite islands starting the process of 'land reclamation' from the swamps. Okavango Delta, Botswana, Southern Africa

Pete Oxford / Papyrus swamps & channels with termite island starting the process of 'land reclamation' from the swamps, Okavango Delta, Botswana, Southern Africa.

Michael Pitts / Aerial view of mine complex and process plant Oktedi mine, Star Mountains, Papua New Guinea

George McCarthy / Aspens (Populus tremula) in the process of changing colour, Autumn, Wyoming, USA

Karl Ammann / Logging tractor removing felled timber from extraction zone. The collateral damage from this process includes destruction of the understorey, saplings and smaller trees in the tropical rainforest.

Daniel Gomez / Tarahumara Indians showing tourists how to process corn. Chihuahua, Mexico.

ZSSD / Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) mother Bai Yun cuddling with her two year old cub Hua Mei on their last day together before being separated to complete the weaning process, native to Asia

Paul D Stewart / Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1 August 1744 - 18 December 1829) portrait when old and blind. A later hand coloured frontis engraving by Lizars from his Cabinet Cyclopaedia series. Lamarck was a french pre-Da...

Paul D Stewart / Illustration of American Mastodon (Mammut americanum) tooth. 'The back grinding tooth of the mammoth or Mastodon of Ohio, weight 4lb and 11oz, drawn and engraved by Springsguth from life'. Forming the...

Paul D Stewart / First edition of Erasmus Darwin's 'Zoonomia', Part 1 'The Laws of Organic Life' with section revealing his remarkably prescient 'world without end' text on evolution. Erasmus Darwin was Charles Darwin...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) from a picture by Wright of Derby, reproduced with later hand colouring by his grandson, Charles Darwin in 'Life of Erasmus Darwin' 1879 (Ernst Krause co-author)...

Paul D Stewart / 1854 illustration of Crystal Palace at its Sydenham site, with Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins' dinosaur sculptures in the foreground. 11cm x 16.3 cm. Miniature colour print by the George Baxter patent pr...

Nick Upton / Common mussels (Mytilus edulis) dotted with masses of very young barnacles and recently settled cyprid larvae in the process of calcifying, exposed at low tide. Rhossili, The Gower Peninsula, UK, July...

Nick Upton / Wide angle view of Common mussels (Mytilus edulis) dotted with masses of very young barnacles and recently settled cyprid larvae in the process of calcifying, exposed at low tide, Rhossili, The Gower...

Nick Upton / Acorn barnacles (Balanus perforatus) attached to limestone rocks alongside Common mussels (Mytilus edulis) with barnacles and recently settled cyprid larvae in the process of calcifying on the rock fa...

Nick Upton / Wide angle view of Acorn barnacles (Balanus perforatus) attached to rocks alongside Common mussels (Mytilus edulis) with masses of very young barnacles and recently settled cyprid larvea in the proces...

Nick Upton / Wide angle view of Acorn barnacles (Balanus perforatus) attached to rocks alongside Common mussels (Mytilus edulis) with young barnacles and recently settled cyprid larvea in the process of calcifying...

Nick Upton / Acorn barnacles (Balanus perforatus) living and dead attached to rocks alongside Common mussels (Mytilus edulis) with masses of very young barnacles and recently settled cyprid larvae in the process o...

Rick Tomlinson / Helmsman in waterproofs as "Intrum Justitia" passes through the Southern Ocean in the Whitbread Round the World Race, skippered by Lawrie Smith, 1993-94. ^^^The team won the second leg of the race and...

Rick Tomlinson / Crew wearing heavy weather gear in dangerous conditions on "Intrum Justitia" racing in the Round the Whitbread World Race, skippered by Lawrie Smith, 1993-94.^^^ the team won the second leg of the rac...

Rick Tomlinson / Intrum Justitia racing in the Round the World Race, 1993-94. ^^^Skippered by British yachtsman Lawrie Smith the team won the second leg of the race and broke a record in the process.

Rick Tomlinson / Helmsman is fully geared up in waterproofs on "EF Language" Skippered by British yachtsman Lawrie in the Whitbread Round the World Race, 1993-94. ^^^The team won the second leg of the race and bro...

Rick Tomlinson / Intrum Justitia racing in the Round the World Race, 1993-94. ^^^Skippered by British yachtsman Lawrie Smith the team won the second leg of the race and broke a record in the process.

David Woodfall / Sea / Brown trout (Salmo / morpha trutta) with Environment Agency tags prior to smoking process. Connections to the Severn Estuary and traditional salmon fishing. Wye and Severn Smokery, Gloucestershi...

David Woodfall / Traditional process of smoking Common eels (Anguilla anguilla) for specialist food market, with connections to the Severn Estuary and traditional salmon fishing. Wye and Severn Smokery, Gloucestershir...

David Woodfall / Traditional process of smoking Common eels (Anguilla anguilla) for specialist food market, with connections to the Severn Estuary and traditional salmon fishing. Wye and Severn Smokery, Gloucestershir...

Mark Moffett / Researcher Jim Patton and assistants process rodent specimens for museum as military guard watches, Aaabshar-rayen, Iran