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
A large purple flowering poppy, Papaver somniferum
£6.00Ground Squirrel sitting in tall grass.
£6.00Red Headed Woodpecker perching on a branch covered in snow.
£6.00White Ibis in Mangroves.
£6.00Silhouette of a Night Heron wading in water.
£6.00Close up of a Great Egret with a fish in his beak.
£6.00Two territorial Gulls fighting.
£6.00Great Egret with a fish in his beak.
£6.00Two Curlews wading in water.
£6.00Gosling in a meadow of wild flowers.
£6.00Cottontail Rabbit sitting on a meadow with an orange Marigold flower.
£6.00Close up of an Atlantic Puffin, head profile.
£6.00Close up of a Harbour Seal on shore.
£6.00Grey Seal resting on a rock in ocean.
£6.00A woman on a country lane, a forager carrying a basket.
£6.00Harbour Seal resting on a rock in ocean.
£6.00Close up of an Atlantic Puffin with a colourful bill.
£6.00Close up of an Atlantic Puffin with several fish in it’s bill.
£6.00Green Iguana hidden in lush foliage.
£6.00Brown Booby in flight over the ocean.
£6.00Close up of an Atlantic Puffin with fish in his colourful bill.
£6.00Male deer with antlers camouflaged in tall grass.
£6.00Male deer with antlers in autumn foliage.
£6.00Male deer with antlers at sunrise, camouflaged by tall grass.
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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.