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.
9,565 images
The open ocean, water surface calm and grey and the glow of the sun at dawn on the…
£6.00Crashing waves and surf at the base of sheer cliffs on the ocean coastline.
£6.00Crashing waves and surf, green and turquoise colours in the ocean, view from above.
£6.00Industrial Complex and Snowy Landscape Under Blue Sky
£6.00Exhaust bubbles from scuba diver rise towards the surface through water.
£6.00Tree trunks, white straight and smooth leaning at an angle, Arcadia Beach State Park,…
£6.00Clear water and sky, Curved horizon line.
£6.00Serene view of calm shallow clear ocean water. Limitless horizon.
£6.00Exhaust bubbles rising to the surface
£6.00Brilliant Crepuscular rays and a sunburst shining through moving water, view from…
£6.00Tree trunks, white straight and smooth leaning at an angle, Arcadia Beach State Park,…
£6.00Scuba diver swims through a stream of bubbles.
£6.00Fence in wintry landscape with grey sky.
£6.00A scuba diver and juvenile whale shark, Rhincodon typus underwater
£6.00Snow-Covered Road
£6.00Fine spotted moray eel emerging from the seabed.
£6.00Stone scorpionfish, Scorpaena plumieri, on the seabed, camouflaged against the…
£6.00Highway signs on road in wintry snowy landscape.
£6.00Restroom in a Snowy Landscape
£6.00Close-up of a diver interacting with a Porcupinefish. This type of fish will inflate…
£6.00Rock formations on beach at low tide, Arcadia Beach State Park, Oregon
£6.00Scuba diver peers around a sea fan coral at Spotted moray eel at a shipwreck site.
£6.00The ocean, water and waves, view of the water surface, in black and white.
£6.00Australian sea lions swimming above the seabed in the waters of the southern ocean.
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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.