Wild Wonders of Europe / Hermansen / Karst limestone landscape, The Burren, County Clare, Republic of Ireland, June 2009

Wild Wonders of Europe / O Haarberg / Wood on the shore of Hornvik, Hornstrandir, Iceland, July 2008

Robert Thompson / Macgillycuddy's reeks and Lough Lean lower, photographed from Ross castle, Killarney, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland, November 2011

Robert Thompson / Macgillycuddy's reeks and Lough Lean lower, photographed from Ross Castle, Killarney, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland, November 2011

Robert Thompson / Devil's island, Lough Lean lower, Killarney, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland, November 2011

Robert Thompson / Stream running through Cummeednduff Glen to Cummeenduff lough, Killarney, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland, November 2011

Robert Thompson / Cummeenduff Lake with Broaghnabinnia mountain, Black Valley, Killarney, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland, May 2012

Erlend Haarberg / Scheuchzer's cottongrass (Eriophorum scheuchzeri) flowering, Finland, July

Erlend Haarberg / Low clouds over the Dynjandi waterfall, Iceland, July 2008

Bernard Castelein / Cotton Grass (Eriophorum vaginatum) growing in wetlands. Venner Moor, Niedersachsen, Germany, May.

Tim Laman / Rugged volcanic peaks of Moorea at sunset. Moorea Island, Society Islands, French Polynesia. July 2006

Richard Du Toit / Arum lilies flowering in the Tulbagh valley, Western Cape, South Africa, August 2009

Shattil & Rozinski / San Luis Valley at dawn, Colorado, USA

Juergen Freund / Clouds and sky at sunset, Pacific

Juergen Freund / Clouds and sun setting at sunset over the Pacific ocean

Juergen Freund / Clouds and sky at sunset, Pacific

Tim Laman / Man walking between Great Basin bristlecone pine trees (Pinus longaeva) in the Patriarch Grove area of the White Mountains, California. Mar 2004.

Peter Blackwell / Alto-cumulus clouds above the Masai Mara, Kenya

Tim Edwards / Sunset over Upper lake, Killarney NP, Co Kerry, Republic of Ireland.

Peter Scoones / Iceberg aground Antarctica