747-2015 - Derwentwater, rowing boat beach, Grisedale Pike range, Keswick, Lake District National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe
832-397141 - Former Chancellery, today Alsace Museum, Haguenau, German Hagenau, Departement Bas-Rhin, Region Grand Est, until 2015 Alsace Alsace, France, Europe
746-91843 - Villages Portela und Bangaeira in the Cha das Caldeiras, destroyed by a lavaflow in 2014/2015. Stratovolcano mount Pico do Fogo. Fogo Island (Ilha do Fogo), part of Cape Verde in the central atlantic.
746-91844 - Villages Portela und Bangaeira in the Cha das Caldeiras, destroyed by a lavaflow in 2014/2015. Stratovolcano mount Pico do Fogo. Fogo Island (Ilha do Fogo), part of Cape Verde in the central atlantic.
746-91842 - Villages Portela und Bangaeira in the Cha das Caldeiras, destroyed by a lavaflow in 2014/2015. Stratovolcano mount Pico do Fogo. Fogo Island (Ilha do Fogo), part of Cape Verde in the central atlantic.
1348-5597 - The medical team performing cesarean sections. The doctor holds the baby after birth to his mother to see. This image was taken at AIIMS hospital, New Delhi, on March 2015.
1348-3395 - Satellite view of Mount Raung, one of the most active volcanoes on the island of Java in Indonesia. This image was taken on July 27, 2015 by Landsat 8 satellite.
1348-3416 - Satellite view of Chikurachki Volcano that erupted on February 17, 2015. The volcano is located in the Kuril Islands in Russia. This image was taken by Landsat 8 satellite.
1350-91 - A telescopic closeup of Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) on January 19, 2015. I shot this from near Silver City, New Mexico, using a TMB 92mm apo refractor at f/4.4 and using a Canon 6D at ISO 1600 for a stack of 4 x 5 minute exposures. The ion tail is primarily from a single exposure to minimize blurring from the comet's motion relative to the stars. The rest of the image is from the stacked combination to minimize noise.
1350-93 - A telescopic closeup of Comet Lovejoy (C/2014 Q2) on January 17, 2015, showing structure in the ion gas tail, in the form of streamers and discontinuities in the tail.
1350-99 - The Northern Lights on Feb 16, 2015, as seen from the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, in Churchill, Manitoba at 58° latitude, and under the auroral oval. The aurora appeared as skies cleared somewhat during a blizzard with high winds and blowing snow conditions. I shot these from the second floor deck of the Centre, out of the wind and off the ground. Jupiter is at right, the Big Dipper at left.
1350-88 - An aurora display on the night of June 7/8, 2015 from southern Alberta, with an old rustic farm truck as the foreground. This is a frame from a 450-frame time-lapse with the Nikon D750 at ISO 1600 and the Sigma 24mm lens at f/2.8, for 8 seconds each. The foreground is from a stack of 8 images adjacent in time to the sky image stacked in Mean mode for smoothing of noise.
1116-46927 - A Brown Bear (ursus arctos) about to catch a salmon in it's mouth at the top of Brooks Falls, Alaska. The fish is only a few inches away from its gaping jaws. Shot with a Nikon D800 in July 2015, Alaska, United States of America
860-288231 - Swimming crab (Cronius ruber). Newly cited species in the Canary Islands (2015). Due to its large number of observations it is considered invasive. Marine invertebrates of the Canary Islands, Tenerife.
1311-29 - Nuclear Lightning, a lightning storm striking near a nuclear power plant in Wintersburg during the 2015 Monsoon Season, Arizona, United States of America, North America
857-95728 - On Saturday 5th December 2015, Storm desmond crashed into the UK, producing the UK''s highest ever 24 hour rainfall total at 341.4mm. It flooded many towns including Keswick. This shots shows one of two railway bridges on the old Keswick railway line that were completely destroyed by the floods. It also shows a tree, now sat in the middle of the river, that used to be growing on the river bank. The force of water was such that it has scoured out huge areas of banking and realigned the river in places.'
857-95729 - On Saturday 5th December 2015, Storm Desmond crashed into the UK, producing the UK''s highest ever 24 hour rainfall total at 341.4mm. It flooded the Lyth Valley, drowning many farms and houses. Several periods of subsequent heavy rain have kept the Lyth Valley inundated, with no sign of respite. Photo taken on Thursday 10th December 2015.'
857-95732 - The A591, the main road through the Lake District, completely destroyed by the floods from Storm Desmond, Cumbria, UK. The road was breached in several places by landslides and walls of flood debris twenty feet high. the road will probably be closed for months. Taken on Sunday 6th December 2015.
857-92917 - The Trona Pinnacles are pictured on a hot summer day in Trona, Calif., on June 7, 2015. The unique formations, known as tufa towers, are primarily made of calcium carbonate and were formed when the springs interacted with the water in what was once Searles Lake.
857-92876 - A restaurant sells shark fin soup in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 25, 2015. Despite efforts by the Thai government to reduce consumption of the controversial delicacy, shark fin is still a common site at restaurants and markets in the Chinatown district.
857-92880 - Bullfighter rodeo clowns try to distract a bull as its rider is bucked to the ground at the Woodlake Lions Rodeo rodeo in Woodlake, Calif., on May 10, 2015.
857-92882 - Volunteers take part in a cleanup event hosted by Outdoor Life, Yamaha and the Southern California Mountains Foundation at the Cactus Flat OHV Staging Area in the San Bernardino National Forest on Sat., Sept. 26, 2015.