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
Clear nighttime skies in Madagascar allow the glow of the Milky Way to shine behind…
£6.00Irrawaddy River, Mandalay, Myanmar
£6.00Brown bear cub, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA
£6.00Hot-air balloon floats through the hazy skies of Bagan, Myanmar
£6.00Brown bear cub, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, USA
£6.00Bagan, Myanmar
£6.00A Bhuddist monk walks through a snow flurry in Koyasan, a centre for Shingon Esoteric…
£6.00Aufeis refers to ice that builds up in layers over arctic rivers. Windblown sediments…
£6.00An aerial view of the Landmannalaugar Mountains in Iceland. Rhyolite mountains and…
£6.00Brown bear, Katmai National Park, Alaska, USA
£6.00After the Kumbh Mela festival in Varanasi, some pilgrims move to Varanasi on the…
£6.00Huang Shan, which means Yellow Mountain. Anhui Province in China. Jagged rock towers.
£6.00Bald eagle and waterfall, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska
£6.00Oak trees lining the road in the Point Reyes Peninsula.
£6.00Icebergs and ice formations in the Antarctic. A large fissure or hole in the centre of…
£6.00A four minute time exposure of ocean surf and coast rocks.
£6.00Gentoo penguins on an iceberg, Antarctica
£6.00Coastal mist softens the graceful lines of Monterey pines. They are part of a larger…
£6.00An iceberg with a deep crevasse or fissure, and the contours of melting ice, in…
£6.00Stream in the Valley of the Ten Peaks, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
£6.00Hardy arctic wildflowers grow only a few inches high in order to reduce exposure to…
£6.00Hardy arctic wildflowers grow only a few inches high in order to reduce exposure to…
£6.00A translucent shard of aufeis reaches toward the arctic sky, Arctic National Wildlife…
£6.00A shard of aufeis reaches toward the arctic sky.
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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.