Brent Stephenson / Australasian gannet (Morus serrator) flying with waves breaking below, Muriwai, Auckland, New Zealand, October.

Ernie Janes / Low tide on the Wash, Snettisham, Norfolk, England, UK, February.

Philip Stephen / Rough weather on the seashore at Buchan Ness Lighthouse, Scotland, January 2014. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Andy Rouse / Gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) walking on beach, Saunders Island, Falkland Islands.

Ernie Janes,Ernie Janes / Yellow Labrador jumping breakwater, Norfolk. April

Theo Bosboom,Theo Bosboom / Gulls, predominantly Iceland gulls (Larus glaucoides) flying above stormy ocean near Vik, Iceland, March 2012.

Igor Shpilenok,Igor Shpilenok / A Kamchatka Brown Bear (Ursus arctos beringianus) standing in breaking waves. Pacific coast of Kronotsky Zapovednik Nature Reserve, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East, July.

David Tipling / Kapitan Klebnikov, an ice breaker, growing through ice in the Weddell Sea near Snow Hill Island, Antarctica, November 2006

David Tipling / Emperor Penguins on sea ice with Kaptan Klebnikov ice breaker in background, Snow Hill Island, Antarctica, November

Neil Lucas / Shadow of helicopter returning to the Russian ice breaker ship, Kapitan Khlebnikov, McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica, November 2008

Magnus Lundgren / Wild Wonders of China / Diver close to wave breaker concrete blocks, Xiaoliuqiu Island, Taiwan

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Waves breaking just off shore, Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK, November.