Stefan Christmann / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) forming breeding colony at start of winter. Atka Bay, Antarctica. April.

Andy Rouse / 2020VISION / Red Kite (Milvus milvus) in flight, Wales, UK, November. 2020VISION Exhibition. Did you know? Reintroduced Red kites in England reproduce when they are one year old, but native kites in Wales only sta...

Onne van der Wal / Miami Acura Grand Prix, Key West, Florida. 2009.

Danny Green / 2020VISION / Red deer (Cervus elaphus) hind with two Jackdaws (Corvus monedula) on her back, Richmond Park, London, England, UK, October. Photographer quote: "Everything in nature is connected. These two jackdaws...

Kristel Richard / A Khampa warrior leads his Tibetan horse towards the start of the race, during the horse festival, near Huangyan, in the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the Sichuan Province, China, June 2010

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Young Sami girl leading Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) at start of Spring migration. Kautokeino, Norway, 1972.

Kristel Richard / Two riders on horses (Equus caballus) from the Gremio di Falegnamii, dressed in traditional costume, parade before the start of the Sartiglia (race to the star) in Oristano, Sardinia, Italy. February...

Kristel Richard / Portrait of a masked rider on a horse (Equus caballus) from the Gremio di Falegnami parades before the start of the 'Sartiglia' (race to the star) in Oristano, Sardinia, Italy. February 2010

Anup Shah / Family of Common zebra {Equus quagga} senior mare in front, stallion at rear, pass through throng of Wildebeest at start of migration, Moru, Serengeti NP, Tanzania

John Waters / Male Peregrine Falcon {Falco peregrinus} swerving in flight, start of swoop, captive, Somerset, UK.

Dave Watts / Red kangaroo male bounding towards camera. {Macropus rufus) NSW, Australia. The kangaroo is the animal long jump champion , able to clear 13m (the length of a bus) from a standing start. the human rec...

Tony Heald / Lioness jumping over water {Panthera leo} Etosha NP, Namibia. Lions can jump 5-6m from a standing start!

John Downer Productions / Bushbaby jumping sequence image. (Resolution restriction - image digitised from film @Weird Nature@ tv series). Bushbabies can jump 5-6m from a standing start!

Doug Gimesy / Two researchers examine an anaesthetised Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) and start to glue a temporary radio transponder to its tail, allowing researchers to track its movements. Snowy River banks...

Doug Gimesy / During an extreme heat-stress event at Melbourne's Yarra Bend Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) colony, where temperatures exceeded 40°C, Grey-headed Flying-foxed (Pteropus poliocepha...

Stefan Christmann / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri), three in fight over mates at start of breeding season. Atka Bay, Antarctica. May.

Stefan Christmann / Cameraman Lindsay McCrae filming Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) returning to form colony at start of breeding season, for BBC Dynasties Penguin programme, Atka Bay, Antarctica. April 2017.

Stefan Christmann / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) at start of breeding season. Atka Bay, Antarctica. April.

Stefan Christmann / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri), many returning to ice at start of winter to form breeding colony. Atka Bay, Antarctica. April 2017.

Stefan Christmann / Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) group swimming towards sea ice to form breeding colony at start of winter. Atka Bay, Antarctica. April.

Philippe Clement / River Verdon at Point Sublime, start of the Sentier Martel in the Gorges du Verdon / Verdon Gorge canyon, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France, September 2018

Ashley Cooper / First Nation Canadians protest against the destruction and pollution of the Tar Sands industry at the 4th annual Healing Walk north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. August 2012

Ashley Cooper / First Nation Canadians protest against the destruction and pollution of the Tar Sands industry at the 4th annual Healing Walk north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. August 2012

Ashley Cooper / Exhaust emissions, the result of burning marine diesel in a ships engine. Marine diesel is one of the most polluting fuels in the world.

Ashley Cooper / Exhaust emissions, the result of burning marine diesel in a ships engine. Marine diesel is one of the most polluting fuels in the world.

Ashley Cooper / Man stoking boiler at Queens Mill in Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK. The mill is powered by a steam engine built over 100 years ago and is still powering the mill today. The steam powered industry...

Ross Hoddinott / Start Point peninsula and Lighthouse at sunrise, South Devon, England. January 2018

Emanuele Biggi / Namib Desert dune ant (Camponotus detritus), queen looking for a suitable place to start building a colony. Swakopmund, Dorob National Park, Namibia

Mike Potts / 'World's Loneliest Tree' a Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) which is over 200km from nearest tree (Auckland Islands) Campbell Island New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands UNESCO World Heritage Site, March...

Mike Potts / 'World's Loneliest Tree' a Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) which is over 200km from nearest tree (Auckland Islands) Campbell Island New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands UNESCO World Heritage Site, March...

Michel Roggo / Hivus-10 hovercraft at start of expedition on the Temnik River, Baikal Nature Reserve, Buryatia, Siberia, Russia, May 2015.

Jabruson / Ouled Rachid tribeswoman with child, looking for shelter at start of a dust storm, Kashkasha village near Zakouma National Park, Chad, 2010.

SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Diver going to shot line that marks the start of the survey point, Lamlash Bay, Isle of Arran, South Arran Marine Protected Area, Scotland, UK, August 2016.

Christophe Courteau / Uganda kob (Kobus kob thomasi) two males start to face off, territorial behaviour. Ishasha sector, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda

Jim Brandenburg / Waterfall at the start of spring, Kawishiwi Falls, Minnesota

Andy Trowbridge / Total Lunar Eclipse of a Supermoon on September 28th 2015. Also called a Blood Moon. A digital composite of 3 images showing the moon moving through the start of the full eclipse (4.11am), maximum ecl...

Onne van der Wal / Start of the Classic Yacht Regatta, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, August 2013. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Onne van der Wal / Several classics at the start of the Classic Yacht Regatta, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, August 2013. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Onne van der Wal / 'Courageous', 'Victory 83' and 'Intrepid' at the start of the New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta, New York, USA, June 2013. All non-editorial uses must be cleared individually.

Lisa Hoffner / Former Save the Elephants research vehicle destroyed by bull elephant in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya. Save the Elephants workers including Iain Douglas-Hamilton trying to push start the LandCrusie...

Kirkendall-Spring / Gear ready to be loaded on to ponies at the start of the Jhomolhaei Trek. Bhutan, October 2014.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Nadia Takui, a Chukchi girl, dressed in a new Kerker (reindeer skin coverall) stands by a ritual fire at the entrance of a Yaranga (tent) at the start of the Chukchi 'Festival of the Young Reindeer' a...

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Yarosalva and Nadia, two Chukchi girls, stand by the entrance of a Yaranga (tent) while Tamara, Nadia's mother, tends a ritual fire at the start of the Chukchi 'Festival of the Young Reindeer' at a he...

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Yarosalva and Nadia, two Chukchi girls, stand by a ritual fire at the entrance of a Yaranga (tent) and watch the start of the Chukchi 'Festival of the Young Reindeer' at a herders' summer camp. Iultin...

Kirkendall-Spring / Black and white photograph of misty forest at the start of the Appalachian Trail on Springer Mountain, Georgia, USA.

Cheryl-Samantha Owen / Hikers on the start of the West Coast Trail at the mouth of the Gordon River, near Port Renfrew. Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, July.

Jabruson / Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) in Rutshuru river with approaching storm, taken before the massive slaughter of hippos in the region at the start of the deterioration of stability during the ove...

D. Parer & E. Parer-Cook / Water-holding Frog (Cyclorana platycephala) breaking from skin underground after the start of rain, central Australia

Jabruson / Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) speeds across mud wallow in Rwindi sector of the Virunga National Park before the massive slaughter of hippos in the region at the start of the deterioration of s...

Jabruson / Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) splashing for position in watery mud wallow, Rwindi sector of the Virunga National Park. This was taken before the massive slaughter of hippos in the region at t...

Sue Flood / Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) in summer coat, Yankicha Island in the Kuril Island chain, Russian Far East. Arctic Foxes were introduced to Yankicha by Japanese fur traders who wanted to start a breeding...

Jabruson / Boys cleaning livestock sheep / goat in rainwater puddle after start of Wet season. Boundary of western flank of the Waza National Park, Cameroon

Alex Mustard / Boulder star coral (Montastraea annularis) spawning at night, showing the very start of the the release of bundles of eggs and sperm, East End, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, British West Indies, Carib...

Jabruson / 'Boda' fungi growing on forest floor, the Ba'Aka name for a non-edible, unidentified species of fungi found throughout the forest just after the start of the rainy season. Bai Hokou, Dzanga-Ndoki Nati...

Yukihiro Fukuda / Sooty terns (Onychoprion fuscatus) chicks have left nest to start learning how to fly on beach, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Sooty terns (Onychoprion fuscatus) chicks have left nests to start learning how to fly on beach, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Yukihiro Fukuda / Sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) chicks leaving nests to start flight training on beach, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Andy Trowbridge / Glade House at the start of the Milford Track, a famous hiking route. Fiordland National Park, Southland District, South Island, New Zealand. November, 2006.

Yukihiro Fukuda / Sooty terns (Onychoprion fuscatus) chicks have left nests to start learning how to fly on beach, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, July

Andy Rouse / European hares (Lepus europaeus) male and female at start of courtship, UK, February

Christophe Courteau / Volcanoes National Park entrance sign with gorilla model, Kinigi Head Quarter where all Gorillas watching treks start from, elevation 2300m, Rwanda

Todd Mintz / Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) young male with start of antler growth in early spring, on Canadian prairies, Saskatchewan, Canada, January

Todd Mintz / Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) young male with start of antler growth in early spring, on Canadian prairies, Saskatchewan, Canada, January

Benoit Stichelbaut / "Foncia" (Skippered by Michel Desjoyeaux) at the start of the Vendee Globe 2008/2009 in heavy seas. Les Sables d'Olonne, France, 9 November 2008. Desjoyeaux won the race, returning on 1st February 200...

Merryn Thomas / Start line of men's heat, Cornwall County Pilot Gig Championships, Newquay, September 2008.

Rob Cousins / "Ella Rose", "Bedehaven" and "Wolf" at the start of a heat in the Bristol Gig Club "Bristol Challenge" race, March 21st 2009.

Merryn Thomas / Start of Avon River Cornish Pilot Gig Race, Bristol, March 21st 2009. "Wolf" (Salcombe), "Bedehaven" (Bude), "Ella Rose" (Porthgain, Wales).

Merryn Thomas / Start of Avon River Cornish Pilot Gig Race, Bristol, March 21st 2009. L-R "Wolf" (Salcombe), "Bedehaven" (Bude), "Ella Rose" (Porthgain, Wales), "Young Bristol" (Bristol). Severn Bridge in the distanc...

Philip Stephen / MFV coming alongside partner vessel to start pair trawling operations. North Sea, 2008. Property released.

Rob Cousins / Preparing for the start of the Bristol Challenge Gig Rowing Race, March 21st 2009.

Rob Cousins / "Wolf" and "Young Bristol" at the start of the Bristol Challenge Gig Rowing Race, Bristol Channel, March 21st 2009.

Merryn Thomas / Start of Avon River Cornish Pilot Gig Race, Bristol, March 21st 2009. "Wolf" (Salcombe), "Bedehaven" (Bude), "Ella Rose" (Porthgain, Wales).

Benoit Stichelbaut / Imoca 60' "VM Materiaux" (Skipper: Jean Le Cam) at the start of Vendee Globe 2008/2009 off Les Sables d'Olonne, France, 9 November 2008.

Benoit Stichelbaut / Onboard a SNSM vedette lifeboat off Saint-Nazaire, France, April 2006. ^^^For the start of Bruno Peyron's circumnavigation attempt aboard multihull "Orange 2".

Benoit Stichelbaut / Vendee Globe 2008/2009 start, Les Sables d'Olonne, France, 9 November 2008.

Benoit Stichelbaut / Imoca 60' "VM Materiaux" (Skipper: Jean Le Cam) flanked by supporter boats at the start of Vendee Globe 2008/2009 off Les Sables d'Olonne, France, 9 November 2008.

Benoit Stichelbaut / "Virbac" and "PRB" at the start of the Vendee Globe 2008/2009, Les Sables d'Olonne, France, 9 November 2008.

Benoit Stichelbaut / Vendee Globe 2008/2009 start, Les Sables d'Olonne, France, 9 November 2008.

Merryn Thomas / Barquentine "Kaliakra", four-masted barque "Sedov" and cruiseliner "Saga Ruby" on the start-line of the Funchal 500 Tall Ships Regatta race, Saturday 13th September 2008. Falmouth, Cornwall, UK

Merryn Thomas / Barquentine "Kaliakra", four-masted barque "Sedov" and three-masted barque "Alexander von Humboldt" lining up of the start of the Funchal 500 Tall Ships Regatta race, Saturday 13th September 2008. Fal...

Rob Cousins / Preparing for the start of the Bristol Challenge Gig Rowing Race, March 21st 2009.

Rob Cousins / "Ella Rose", "Bedehaven" and "Wolf" at the start of a heat in the Bristol Gig Club "Bristol Challenge" race, March 21st 2009.

Merryn Thomas / Start line of men's heat, Cornwall County Pilot Gig Championships, Newquay, September 2008.

Philip Stephen / MFV coming alongside partner vessel to start pair trawling operations. North Sea, 2009. Property released.

Benoit Stichelbaut / Crew members of "PRB", skippered by Vincent Riou, loading the boat with food and supplies before the start of the Vendee Globe 2008/2009, Les Sables d'Olonne, France. 7 November 2008.

Philip Stephen / Aboard "Ocean Harvest" 40-50 miles East of Newcastle on the Barnacle Bank. "Harvester" is manoeuvring alongside to receive his side of the net at the start of a pair trawl operation, October 2008. Pr...

Philip Stephen / Aboard "Ocean Harvest" 40-50 miles East of Newcastle on the Barnacle Bank. "Harvester" is manoeuvring alongside to receive his side of the net at the start of a pair trawl operation, October 2008. Pr...

Benoit Stichelbaut / Start line for the Suzuki Prologue, 40th Solitaire du Figaro, Lorient, France, 28 July 2009.

Benoit Stichelbaut / Start line for the Suzuki Prologue, 40th Solitaire du Figaro, Lorient, France, 28 July 2009.

Benoit Stichelbaut / Start line at Spi Ouest-France, La Trinite sur Mer, Brittany, France. April 2010.

Rick Tomlinson / Offshore race start, Audi Med Cup, Cascais, Portugal, May 2010.

Rick Tomlinson / Farr 40 start, with "Barking Mad" on port. Miami Grand Prix, Florida, USA. March 2010.

Rick Tomlinson / Melges 32 start, Miami Grand Prix, Florida, USA. March 2010. Bow number 60, "Teasing Machine" (FRA) was the overall winner.

Rick Tomlinson / Alinghi's Ernesto Bertarelli at press conference prior to the start of the 33rd America's Cup, Valencia, Spain. February 2010.

Rick Tomlinson / Russell Coutts at press conference prior to the start of the 33rd America's Cup, Valencia, Spain. February 2010.

Rick Tomlinson / Oracle's Larry Ellison at press conference prior to the start of the 33rd America's Cup, Valencia, Spain. February 2010.