Nature
Royalty-free nature photography from independent photographers: landscapes, coastlines, forests, mountains, weather and the small details of the natural world. Every image is a real photograph, licensed for commercial and editorial use from 1 credit.
10,229 images
Whooper swans, Hokkaido, Japan
£6.00Whooper swans, Hokkaido, Japan
£6.00Japanese cranes upright, spreading their wings and preening on a frozen lake in…
£6.00Trees reflect in the icy water of Lake Kawakguchi, Japan
£6.00Japanese cranes upright, spreading their wings and preening on a frozen lake in…
£6.00A pair of mute swans in Lake Kawaguchi disrupt the reflection of Mt. Fuji, Japan
£6.00Whooper swans, Hokkaido, Japan
£6.00An aerial view of the islands of the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia
£6.00Late afternoon light on the sand dunes stretching the entire length of Namibia’s coast…
£6.00Cape Agulhas, Arniston, South Africa
£6.00Grand Prismatic Spring, a bright turquoise pool and site of geothermal activity, with…
£6.00Iceberg, Antarctica
£6.00Mount Rainier, a snow capped peak, surrounded by forest reflected in the lake surface…
£6.00King Penguins, Aptenodytes patagonicus, in groups on the beach at dusk on South…
£6.00A five minute timed exposure of the night sky and a shower of stars above Mount…
£6.00Mount Rainier, a snow capped peak, surrounded by forest reflected in the lake surface…
£6.00Mount Rainier, a snow capped peak, surrounded by forest reflected in the lake surface…
£6.00Tulip fields seen from the air, at Skagit Valley, in Washington. Yellow flowers, and…
£6.00Bagan, Myanmar
£6.00White stupas at Kuthodaw Pagoda, Mandalay, Myanmar
£6.00Fishermen on Inle Lake, Myanmar
£6.00Fishermen on Inle Lake, Myanmar
£6.00North-central Mongolian stone engravings, potentially more than three thousand years…
£6.00Abstract Reflections, Inle Lake, Myanmar
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About our nature stock photos
Our nature collection is built from photographers who work outdoors for a living, so you get real light, real weather and real places rather than composited scenes. It ranges from wide landscapes — mountain ranges, valleys, big skies over open country — to intimate details: frost on a leaf, moss on a stone wall, the pattern of ripples on a lake.
Nature imagery works hard across a lot of briefs. Sustainability and environmental reports, tourism and travel marketing, wellbeing and healthcare campaigns, packaging and interiors all lean on it. When you are choosing, look at the quality of the light first: soft morning and evening light photographs well on screen and in print, while harsh midday sun tends to flatten a scene. Landscape-orientation frames suit website heroes and presentation slides; portrait frames suit social stories and print covers, and you can filter for either above.
Every image here is covered by our Standard royalty-free licence — websites, social media, presentations, marketing and print runs up to 500,000 copies, worldwide and without an expiry date. Standard images are 1 credit (£6) and Premium images 3 credits, and the full-resolution file is available to download the moment you check out.