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...

Konrad Wothe / Clouds, Bavaria, Germany

Ingo Arndt / Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) flying near mountains, Paine Massif, Torres del Paine, Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile

Michel Roggo / Rangimairewhenua or Blue Lake, Nelson Lakes National Park, South Island, New Zealand, February 2013. Photographed for The Freshwater Project

Colin Monteath/ Hedgehog House / Mountains reflected in lake at sunset, Lake Matheson, Mount Tasman and Mount Cook, Westland National Park, South Island, New Zealand

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

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.