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
Lightning on the horizon at North Prairie Trace Road, black stormy sky over the land.
£6.00Lightning Strike near the Berea Evangelical Lutheran Church, a small church under a…
£6.00Base of a Supercell Showing the RFD, Rear Flank Downdraft Cut
£6.00Lightning Strike near the Berea Evangelical Lutheran Church, a small church under a…
£6.00Base of a Supercell Showing the RFD, Rear Flank Downdraft Cut
£6.00Approaching Storm with Lightning, a sky of black and grey clouds, and lightning…
£6.00Base of a Developing Supercell;
£6.00Approaching storm clouds with lightning in Nebraska, a blue sky background, glow on…
£6.00Roll cloud, a round tube formation hovering just above ground on the horizon, over a…
£6.00Base of a Developing Supercell;
£6.00Roll cloud in the sky, a gathering storm over a dirt road, reaching to a brighter…
£6.00Supercell with a Sculpted Base at Sunset
£6.00A dramatic horizontal roll cloud, formed when a downdraft pushes cold air ahead of it,…
£6.00Supercell with a Sculpted Base at Sunset
£6.00Storm cloud structure in the sky over a corn field with a green crop, billowing white…
£6.00Supercell with a Sculpted Base at Sunset
£6.00Storm with a Mesocyclone or a Rotating Updraft, a cloud formation rising above a green…
£6.00Supercell with a Sculpted Base at Sunset
£6.00Burrowing Owl, also known as a shoco, Athene cunicularia, perched on the ground at…
£6.00Supercell with a Sculpted Base at Sunset
£6.00Burrowing Owl, athene cunicularia, with its head above the ground, in a burrow in…
£6.00Supercell with a Sculpted Base at Sunset
£6.00Fully Developed Wedge Tornado on the Ground after Sunset with Lightning in the Supercell
£6.00Back Side of a Tornado-Producing Supercell, blue sky on the horizon.
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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.