When the clouds cleared, there was Mt Fuji with a silky hat.

A female humpback whale slowly rises toward the surface to take a breath

This series is a tribute to the nature of Iceland, one of the most beautiful and wild on the planet, but increasingly overcrowded by tourism. In it I show some of the places most visited by tourists. I just hope that the government knows how to manage it and that its preservation and beauty remain intact without making constructions such as hotels, restaurants, etc. next to its main points of interest.

In the late spring and early summer, the fireflies in the mountains at night are flying in the mist, dreamy and charming.

It becomes a plum that grows its branches as if it were dancing powerfully toward the sky.

Tateyama is one of the snowiest places in Japan. This picture was taken at the beginning of May, but it was all snow-covered. I stayed in the tent and waited for the night. Fortunately, it was very fine and the Milky Way looked very beautiful. This is a panoramic photo using 12 photos. Six pictures of the Milky Way use an equatorial mount. Masahiro Hiroike is a computer engineer and photographer born in Tottori, Japan in 1962.

Scorching and bubbling, the Dragon's Eye in Iceland - a hot spring in the heart of the island captured from a bird's eye view - it looks almost microscopic!

Well, not the Yellow Submarine, but something completely ominous, different, and breathtaking... Stingrays swimming off the coast of the Cayman Islands.

A trip to Lake Kerkini in Greece opened a whole lot of photo opportunities with the Dalmatian Pelicans. On this particular day, I wanted to try using my wide-angle lens to get a different perspective. I was laid on a board that went out into the water's edge. With a dead fish (locally sourced from a fisherman on the lake) placed at the end, these pelicans became inquisitive. The closest one took the fish and I managed to get some very interesting images. The rest of the series shows wildlife taken during the winter, which creates challenging photography. I am a photographer that specializes in wildlife. My passion for wildlife has taken me around the world and there is nothing I love doing more and I try hard to show that passion through my images. I spend hours in the field and what some people don’t understand is that some feelings you get are priceless…it is a true blessing to be able to take the time to sit and watch wildlife, let alone photograph it. Sometimes it’s more important to experience the moment rather than miss it taking photos. “Photographing wildlife is an adventure, but most of all, a privilege.”

It was dark when we drove through the ebony forest towards our camp. Suddenly the warning bark of a lone baboon indicated a leopard was close at hand. Peering through the darkness, we could make out a leopard dragging a large impala up the trunk towards a fork in the tree. It was a struggle for the predator and twice both fell to the ground before the exhausted leopard succeeded in securing its kill.

San Francisco Bay Wetland—Once home to an array of wildlife and plants, the San Francisco Bay Area salt ponds are now a world of blazing colors and patterns when viewed from above. Their dark past connected to the manufacture of napalm is part of the complicated story of a thriving land in transition—a healing landscape that unites many worlds as one.

I was observing some birds at a city park, trying to learn about sunbirds, and I saw it always come to the flower and hover. I had an idea to take the picture, and I tried to put some nectar on the flower. When the bird came to the flower that I wanted, I put my camera near the flower and used a wireless remote, and when the bird came, I took the picture.

Recording the spectacular picture of horsemen running horses at sunset.

An incredible cloud shaped like a flying saucer is positioned over El Chaltén (Mount FitzRoy) in Argentina. The strong winds of Patagonia help these climatic phenomena to be observed in the mountain ranges and high mountain peaks.

Sundown in Africa - the composition of these images requires careful planning, as these colors seen in the image only appear at a certain period of time, for a short while.

Taken with a drone from high above, a small, footprint-shaped island, with a perfect frame from the water around it in the Alps.

A haphazard photo when the sun was going down in Manarola, Italy - after walking all day through the Cinque Terre vineyards, the photographer arrived just in time for a splendid sunset.

When dinner time arrives, the black-naped monarch feeds its young, usually with butterflies, grasshoppers, and spiders.

I shot these birds on the island of Hokkaido in early 2020. They struck me with their aesthetics and grace. Japanese cranes looked very graphic on the white snow. Despite the cold, I couldn't take my eyes off them.

This image was captured on a beautiful misty day in Clonakilty. I pass this tree every day and I just had to wait for the right conditions.

I am a Fine Art Photographer based in Clonakilty, West Cork, Ireland on the Wild Atlantic Way, where I am inspired every day by the beautiful Irish coastline. Photography is my escape and my passion.

Climate change is affecting the Arctic faster than anywhere else in the world. I was very lucky to witness and capture the meltwater that was cascading down from the ice and into the ocean. Austfonna Ice Cap, which is located in Svalbard, is Europe's third-largest glacier. It is definitely the most spectacular I've ever come across.

A rare image of the Milky Way above a sinkhole in the Dead Sea, Israel. The sinkholes are always forming and disappearing.

In the twilight zone is a project where I explore dark wildlife images as a means to visualize feelings. The goal is to turn it into a book describing my personal journey from a successful middle manager, through a hard hit into the wall due to lots of stress and then back up again and instead of running my own company.

Spiral orb webs - vertical or horizontal, dome-shaped or hexagonal, with mysterious writings, or delicate decorations, in peace, in rain, in storm - I spent these 6 pandemic months in the Hong Kong wild, taking ONE-SHOT photos of how spiders spin silk, weave, and embellish their webs. On these silky shelters, the spiders can hide, or wait or attack, or feed or rest. Simultaneously, in order to survive, and to protect themselves from outside attack, they have to be trapped behind their own nets day after day, night after night. That's life! That's our lives?

Utterly mesmerizing, this panoramic photograph won the hearts of the jury panel of TIFA for its immense depth and colors. The image is a long exposure still time-lapse Day-To-Night project consisting of over 700 exposures.

During the rainy season, the beautiful flamingos adorn the Rift Valley with their long legs, long neck, black beak, and pink feathery coats. It is indeed feasting to our eyes; we feel like we are at a beauty pageant. Unfortunately, recent climate changes aren't favorable for these delicate beauties, and their numbers are gradually decreasing. Something different about these birds is their feeding style, they feed with their head upside down. The lower beak is fixed, and the top one is able to move which is the opposite of most birds. My name is Thomas Vijayan, I am basically an architect hailing from Kerala, India, also known as God’s Own Country. I was raised in Bangalore and have now settled in Canada with my family. I have traveled all the seven continents for photography, which is my passion but not my profession. The big cats have always been my favorite subject for photography. To me there is nothing called "perfection" in any photography; every click to me is an experience, the more I click, the more I learn something new. I give more importance to quality than clicking pictures in quantity.

Humans' relationship with other species is becoming increasingly destructive for those imprisoned or pushed out of human life. Today, this relationship, which has focused on discussions on animal rights and animal welfare in a wide range from industrial meat production to experimental animals, is increasingly being discussed. It is possible to see the human-animal relationship's complex dimensions in the animals' eyes brought to Van Yüzüncü Yil University Animal Hospital, where all kinds of animals are treated.

When low sunlight illuminates clouds, dust and water grains in the air, vivid yellow, red, pink and purple tones appear. As this phenomenon is short-lived, each image required careful planning, and sometimes many sessions were needed to capture the images that I had set out to achieve. Wildlife photographer, born in Hungary, 1985. In 2010 he won the prestigious BBC Wildlife Photography of the Year award in London. He is the most effective photographer in the 53-year-old history of the competition, being the only contestant winning the first prize in both the young and adult categories. In 2005 he experimented the one-way glass photography technique, making fundamental changes in hide photography practice. This technique has been widely used all over the world, and most hides are equipped with such glasses.

Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in Alaska is the most remote national park in the U.S, with no roads. It remains virtually unchanged except by the forces of nature. These images are part of my journey into the Arctic Circle, exploring this majestic and pristine American National Park — one that will soon be opened up for industrial mining. This is a last glimpse of the endangered landscape.

When I traveled to Hokkaido, there was nothing but peace and beauty here. And I saw the Christmas tree standing lonely in the snowfield. Stronger than anything, but lonely. Same as me. I walked through the woods and watched the sun travel across the treetops, I found myself waiting for that perfect moment. Suddenly all the glitter and sparkles appeared right in front of me, just like a fully decked-out Christmas tree in the snow. I grasped the moment with my camera, all those poetic pieces of shadows in the snow.

As humans, we view aging in an unhealthy way: wrinkles are bad and as an older person, you are so easily dismissed. When we view nature, in this case, the world of trees, we find an intrinsic beauty that accompanies aging wood. The beauty of form and shape is inescapable. I have attempted to capture this beauty through my series of black and white photos emphasizing the wonderful grain structure that is heightened by water, air, and time.

The strange cloud flow was like a time trip to another time in another world.

A collaborative project based on 50 yrs of observations by polymath, art critic & pioneer of environmentalism, John Ruskin. Embracing a multidisciplinary practice, incorporating B&W photography taken from a single window, overlaid with pictures of paintings in the tradition of the Pictorialist movement into a single body of work. Ruskin warned of the approaching "storm clouds," Man poisoning the land, sky, a premonition of a decaying world. By combining these two aesthetics, confusing & challenging viewers to see beyond the objective, the obvious, to arrive at the subjective landscape.

A way to show what the photographer's dogs see and the way they feel in the everyday life: happiness, fun, and love, a cheerful and colorful photo series introducing them to the world.

When the flamingos fly over Lake Magadi in Kenya, we can see magical forms and colors intersect each other. Emre Kuheylan, member of the esteemed jury panel in the Tokyo International Foto Awards, said of the photo: "The mixture of the lake structure and birds create a unique, painting-like landscape."

How can we immortalize flowers? By freezing them! The photographer's husband started bringing her flowers bought from old ladies, and in order to document them, the artist took to freezing them and taking images to preserve their beauty.

A beautiful formation in Northern Arizona, USA - the sky providing a perfect contrast between the swirls of rock.

I'm a painter and photographer. I studied at the Fine Arts Department of Nicolaus Copernicus University (UMK) in Torun (Poland). I'm a former member of the Association of Polish Nature Photographers (ZPFP), the Association of Polish Artists, and Designers (ZPAP), and the Association of Polish Pastelists (SPP). I've taken part in over 150 exhibitions.

A series from the desert dunes of the Empty Quarter, the warm seas of the Gulf, and the ice and snow from the Arctic north, show the fragility of ecosystems.

This is a series of "Spider lily". In Japan, it is called "彼岸花" and associated with death. But I'm attracted to the bright red.

Personal project of still life study by using trees and plants as subjects.

Water has many faces. Most of the time, we only see our seas and rivers as monotonous, smooth surfaces. This familiar image changes through the perspective of the air. Glacier rivers, tidal patterns, or mudflats transform into abstract structures and forms.

Suspend your idea of reality and transpose the colors around you with fantasy. When these are blended, you see things differently. The world is melancholic yet vivid, enveloped in layers of emotions and perception changing every minute. My photographs are collections of the fading beauty of things lost in a moment. Yuuki Shibata is a Japanese photographer and artist born and raised in Japan. In France in 2017, she participated in the UNESCO Biennale International Design in Saint-Etienne (France) where she began working on a project called “Identity”. She was invited to Moscow Design Museum in Moscow (Russia) in 2019 to work on “Identity” and to also join a solo exhibition at State Institute for Art Studies. This project was introduced in Tokyo Newspapers and has been awarded in the International Photography Awards 2019 and 2020. Her photography and art projects have exhibited in many countries.

Cabo Pulmo.

The amazing quiver trees in Namibia are a sight to behold. I wanted a different view and so painted the tree with a red light to show up against the starlit sky.

Serene, peaceful, covered in a golden blanket, the lake seems almost like it isn't even a lake.

A series of six species of jellyfish, the photos are somewhat like drawings. transporting into a monochrome world where these creatures float around in the air.

A Japanese forest, taken from above - is almost like a texture of a material.

Sunset over the cracked mud of Death Valley, California.

Melancholy 30 cm x 45 cm Cyanotype print
"A sadness falls upon me while I ponder on what has been." Melancholy is part of the series "Colpo di Fulmine" which means love at first sight or struck by lightning. It resembles an unexpected but decisive moment of absolute beauty, surprisingly powerful and intense in emotion. Intertwined and inseparable.

A truly unforgettable experience: the photographer captured the dancing Aurora Borealis reflecting on the riverside.

Captured at the right second: a feeder diver just below, watching the shark sail above her.

This huge school of jacks took in Cabo Pulmo, Mexico.

Underwater Photographer.

Spawning behavior for purplemask angelfish. After the sun goes down, these purplemask angelfish will be starting spawning for a half-hour. Male angelfish will chase females, the male tries to stimulate the female's belly, and they continue to have a love dance for about 5 minutes, finally spawning for a few seconds. It was hard to dive to capture for spawning and eggs but I could make it after spending a week with this subject.

Lake Baikal in winter has the famous arrow pillar Ice Cave, blue ice, bubble ice, and other beautiful scenery. Ride a hovercraft on the frozen lake and explore the various amazing and unforgettable natural beauty. Over 15 years at a CXO level in the information industry. Currently is a photographer, traveler, lecturer, blogger writer, and professional business consultant. Hoping that the eyes of the photographer will bring you a different field of vision.

Record the beauty of the stars and the Milky Way.

This is Bihoro Pass. It's possible to see a wonderful starry sky in a lake and a night sky under the eyes of a mountain top. It was possible to see an excellent Milky Way arch on this day. It isn't possible to put this wonderful scenery in one picture. A lot of pictures were taken and it was made one of the panoramic photographs.

Autumn in Rausu, Hokkaido is the season for salmon spawning. Pink salmon go up the river and struggle to give birth to new lives. They came to a small waterfall, but is there enough power to climb the waterfall? It can be understood that most of them are full of bruises and that their lives are scarce. DAISUKE KURASHIMA was born in Nagano-City, Nagano-Prefecture, Japan. Started scuba diving and underwater photography in 2011. After working as a system engineer for several years, now currently working as an underwater photographer.