Nature

Divided frogs

Most Beautiful Picture April 15, 2019
Divided frogs

Divided frogs. Photo: Bence Máté Divided frogs try to come to the surface after being thrown into the water in Covasna, Romania. The sale of frog legs, often cut while […]

The Crowd

Most Beautiful Picture March 29, 2019
The Crowd

« The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find themselves in places no one has […]

Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Most Beautiful Picture March 23, 2019
Great Barrier Reef, Australia (2017)

So extensive, it is visible from space, the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef ecosystem. Stretching 2,300 km along Australia’s northeast coastline, this complex of shallow water […]

Ao Phang Nga, Thailand

Most Beautiful Picture February 28, 2019
Ao Phang Nga, Thailand

Ao Phang Nga National Park is located in Phang Nga Province, southern Thailand. Most of the park consists of an area of the Andaman Sea studded with numerous limestone tower karst islands. The best known of […]

Mount Rainier

Most Beautiful Picture February 27, 2019
Mount Rainier, Cascades Mountains

The Cascades in Washington, with Mount Rainier, the range’s highest mountain, standing at 4,392 m. Seen in the background (left to right) are Mount Adams, Mount Hood, and Mount St. […]

Firefalls, Yosemite

Most Beautiful Picture February 18, 2019
Golden Horsetail Falls, Yosemite National Park

For two weeks out of the year, the sun aligns just right with Horsetail Falls in Yosemite National Park where the waterfall glows like lava a few minutes before sunset.

Jumping Elephant

Most Beautiful Picture January 21, 2019
Jumping Elephant

This photograph is a fake, but it was so funny that we decided to publish it anyway. It comes from a 2008 Photoshop design contest called “Levitations 7”  from the website […]

Sam Cavallaro falling

Most Beautiful Picture January 20, 2019
Sam Cavallaro falling

This shot of Sam Cavallaro falling at Beachers Brook while riding MJP Kendrick at Aintree won the Remarkable Award for Sports in Action of the Siena International Photo Awards.

Leopard seal and penguin

Most Beautiful Picture January 18, 2019
Leopard seal catch a penguin

A leopard seal hides in a lagoon just before low tide, while waiting to ambush young penguins. This seal caught the penguin by its feet, dragging it to the open […]

Ultima Thule

Most Beautiful Picture January 3, 2019
Ultima Thule

First image of Ultima Thule, January 2, 2019. This image taken by the Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) is the most detailed of Ultima Thule returned so far by the New […]

Defending his place

Most Beautiful Picture November 24, 2018
Defending his place

On this small remote island live about 150 indigenous people that refuse to have any contact with other humans. Every attempt to set foot on the soil of this island results […]

The Golden Couple

Most Beautiful Picture October 26, 2018
The Golden Couple

As the group of Qinling golden snub-nosed monkeys jumped from tree to tree, Marsel struggled to keep up, slipping and stumbling over logs. Gradually he learned to predict their behaviour, […]

Dizzy Namibia

Most Beautiful Picture June 29, 2018
Dizzy Namibia

The most incredible thing in Namibia is the night sky. Here are 700 frames combined into one image. Each frame is 25 s, f / 2.8, iso 5000, 2 s […]

Roar

Most Beautiful Picture May 4, 2018
Roar

Underwater photographer of the year – winner. Location: Yos Dive Lembeh house reef, Indonesia. While the photographer was shooting these three nudi a moray eel suddenly appeared out of the […]

Batagaika Crater, Siberia, Russia

Most Beautiful Picture August 9, 2017
Batagaika Crater, Siberia, Russia

The Batagaika crater is a thermokarst depression in the form of a one kilometre-long gash up to 100 metres deep, and growing, in the East Siberian taiga, in the Sakha Republic in Russia. The land began to sink due […]