Ernie Janes / Farmer changing plough shears on plough, Hertfordshire, UK

Tony Heald / Woman harvesting Tea (Camellia sinensis) with leaf plucking shears. Carolyn Tea Estate, Mango Range, The Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India. 2014.

Ingo Arndt / Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) shearing. Cerro Castillo, Torres del Paine area, Patagonia, Chile. April 2018.

Graham Eaton / Kelvin-Helmholz clouds forming over the Eastuary of the River Dee and the Wirral Peninsular, December. These waveform clouds are caused by shear between air above moving at a different speed than belo...

Niall Benvie / Cirrus clouds displaying wind shear, Brechin, Scotland, UK, September.

Niall Benvie / Cirrus clouds displaying wind shear, Brechin, Scotland, UK, September.

Cyril Ruoso / Man shearing sheep, Streymoy, Faroe Islands. August 2003.

Cyril Ruoso / Men shearing sheep, Streymoy, Faroe Islands. August 2003.

Cyril Ruoso / Men shearing sheep, Streymoy, Faroe Islands. August 2003.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Woman picking Roses (Rosa sp) in greenhouse on commercial rose farm, Tanzania, East Africa. October 2011.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Scientist taking a 'fin clip' for genetic analysis from an endemic Clanwilliam sandfish (Labeo seeberi) during the Northern Cape Department of Environmental Affairs (DENC) freshwater fish survey. Oorl...

Graham Eaton / A thrust fault in Cambrian and pre-cambrian age sediments, Aberdarron, Lleyn, Wales, Novemeber 2012

Colin Monteath / Rata Tree (Metrosideros sp) group showing wind shear, Auckland Islands, New Zealand

Jack Dykinga / Stream flowing through limestone boulders beneath the shear, Bromeliad covered walls of Servilletta Canyon in Tamaulipas, Mexico

Steven Kazlowski / Sunlight illuminates the shear faces of a large iceberg along the western Antarctic peninsula, Southern Ocean

Graham Eaton / En echelon tension cracks in limestone, forming a shear zone. The mineral crystals grow perpendicular to the crack indicating how the rock has been pulled apart, Clovelley, Devon, UK. January, 2022.

Graham Eaton / An en echelon band of tension gashes or cracks in rock. The cracks have become mineral infilled (quartz) with the mineral fibres growing in the direction that the cracks were opened, Abereiddy, Pembro...

Graham Eaton / A shear zone in Pre-Cambrian graphite schists and phyllite. The rocks are highly deformed and contain faults and Riedel Shears, near Aberdaron, Wales, UK. April, 2021.

Graham Eaton / A section of Pre-Cambrian age metamorphic rocks displaying S-C deformation fabric, Holy Island, Anglesey, Wales. July, 2021.

Graham Eaton / Within the Cambrian, Gwna Group, here is an excellent example of S-C fabric within schistose metasediments. S stands for Schistosity and C means Cisaillement (meaning scissor type movement in French)....

Graham Eaton / Echelon tension cracks in limestone, forming a shear zone, with mineral crystals grow perpendicular to the crack indicating how the rock has been pulled apart. Clovelly, Devon, England. January, 2022.

Neil Aldridge / A European badger (Meles meles) in a cage trap has its fur cut by scissors after being vaccinated against TB. North Somerset, UK. The clipped area will be sprayed with a dye to indicate that the badge...

Neil Aldridge / A vaccinator prepares to clip the fur of a European badger (Meles meles) in a cage trap after vaccinating it against TB. North Somerset, UK. The clipped area will be sprayed with a dye to indicate tha...

Neil Aldridge / A case with two syringes containing TB vaccine for badgers and a pair of scissors being used during a European badger vaccination programme in North Somerset, UK. Badger vaccination programmes are bei...

Ernie Janes / Arrangement of Chinese Lanterns (Physalis alkekengi) and Allium seedheads from garden with secateurs.