Theo Bosboom / Patterns of algae on a limestone rock with sand, White sands beach, Causeway coast, Northern Ireland. April 2016.

Marie Read / American oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus) adult feeding chick, Long Island, New York, USA. June.

Shane P. White / Freshwater lagoons amid sand dunes, Lencois Maranhenses National Park, Brazil

Jack Dykinga / Birdcage evening primrose (Oenothera deltoides) flowering in the sand dune flats near Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA, March.

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Ripples on white gypsum sand dunes, White Sands National Park, New Mexico

George Sanker / White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) females grazing in snow, Acadia National Park, Maine, USA. February.

MYN / Gil Wizen / Israeli sand cockroach (Heterogamodes hebraica) composite showing ventral and dorsal view of female, Central Coastal Plain, Israel, April. Focus-stacked. meetyourneighbours.net project

Andy Trowbridge / Puffin (Fratercula arctica) standing on Sea thrift (Armeria maritima) with wings out stretched with a beak full of sand eels. Close-up portrait. Fair Island, Shetland Islands, Scotland, July.

Alex Hyde / Question Mark Cockroach (Therea olegrandjeani) photographed on a white background. Captive, originating from India.

Jouan Rius / Gypsum sand dune at sunset, White Sands National Park, Chihuahuan Desert, New Mexico, USA, December 2012.

Jack Dykinga / White Sands National Park with its white gypsum dunes dotted with Yuccas (Yucca elata) creating patterns amid the dunes, at sunset. White Sands, New Mexico. January 2013

Jack Dykinga / White Sands National Park with its white gypsum dunes dotted with Yuccas (Yucca elata) creating patterns amid the dunes. White Sands, New Mexico, USA. January 2013