Reflections on Crummock Water in the Lake District, Cumbria, England (© Damian Harrison/Alamy)

Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo) in wildflower meadow, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (© Rosl Roessner/Minden Pictures)

Swift fox pups in Grasslands National Park near Val Marie in Saskatchewan, Canada (© John E Marriott/age fotostock)

Kayaker exploring sandstone sea caves in Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, USA (© Chuck Haney/Danita Delimont)

White storks at Los Barruecos Natural Monument, Caceres, Spain (© Wild Wonders of Europe/Widstrand/Minden Pictures)

View from the Great Ocean Road with the Milky Way, Victoria, Australia (© idizimage/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Male leopard in Linyanti Wildlife Reserve, Botswana (© Karine Aigner/Tandem Stills + Motion)

The Supertree Grove in Singapore's Gardens by the Bay (© John Warburton-Lee/Danita Delimont)

Seville, Spain’s Guadalquivir River and Triana Bridge for the 500th anniversary of Magellan’s departure (© Zu Sanchez Photography/Getty Images)

A thunderstorm rolls across the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota, USA (© Judith Zimmerman/Danita Delimont)

Shepherd with flock of sheep at dawn, Thar desert (© Laurent Geslin/Minden Pictures)

Mars Express image of the icy cap at Mars’ south pole (© ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Bill Dunford)

Male and female Ecuadorian horned anoles in Mindo, Ecuador (© James Christensen/Minden Pictures)

A boy flies a tricoloured kite at Jama Masjid, Delhi (© REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee)

Yukon River viewed from the Midnight Dome, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada (© Robert Postma/Getty Images)

Bees for National Honey Bee Day (© Angela Parker/Offset)

Tidal pools of Leça da Palmeira, Portugal (© Fernando Guerra/age fotostock)

The Dubai Fountain in Burj Lake taken from the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (© Eli Asenova/Getty Images)

Muje-Oulu Lake in eastern Finland (© Topi Ylä-Mononen/plainpicture)

Wildebeest herd crossing the Mara River between Kenya and Tanzania (© zhengvision/Getty Images)

Chennai Government Museum (© TPG/age fotostock)

Farmland in USA's Palouse region (© Art Wolfe/Getty Images)

Brown bears in Katmai National Park, Alaska (© imageBROKER/SuperStock)

Satellite image of the Burning Man Festival in Black Rock City, Nevada (© DigitalGlobe/ScapeWare3d/Getty Images)

Royal Albert Hall during the annual BBC Proms festival in London (© Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Anak Krakatoa volcano erupting off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia (© Martin Rietze/Alamy)

Rose-ringed parakeets (Psittacula krameri manillensis) in the National Chambal Gharial Wildlife Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh, India (© Pete Oxford/Minden Pictures)

Asbury Park in New Jersey, USA (© Patrick Morisson/Alamy)

Slacklining between giant boulders in Bishop, California, USA (© Evgeny Vasenev/Aurora Photos)

Castelbouc and the Gorges du Tarn along the Tarn River in France (© Stefan Schurr/Westend61/Offset)