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.
9,404 images
Cafe sign, large letters and a shadow on the ground.
£6.00Washington Park Arboretum, the red autumn colours of the leaves of a Japanese maple tree.
£6.00Stand up paddle borders racing on Puget Sound at dusk, outlines, reflections of light…
£6.00Washington Park Arboretum, the red autumn colours of the leaves of a Japanese maple tree.
£6.00Washington Park Arboretum, the red autumn colours of the leaves of a Japanese maple tree.
£6.00Paddlers, paddleboarders on the water at Deception Pass State Park, Anacortes.
£6.00Washington Park Arboretum, the red autumn colours of the leaves of a Japanese maple tree.
£6.00Basketball hoop and backboard, low angle view, against a blue sky.
£6.00Washington Park Arboretum, the red autumn colours of the leaves of a Japanese maple tree.
£6.00Basketball hoop and backboard, low angle view, against a blue sky.
£6.00Washington Park Arboretum, the red autumn colours of the leaves of a Japanese maple tree.
£6.00Rain drops on the windshield of a car.
£6.00Washington Park Arboretum, the red autumn colours of the leaves of a Japanese maple tree.
£6.00Fallen tree across a road, view from the driver’s seat of a car.
£6.00Washington Park Arboretum, the red autumn colours of the leaves of a Japanese maple tree.
£6.00A double rainbow in a dark stormy sky, reaching down to the horizon.
£6.00The Swiftsure Light Ship moored at Northwest Seaport, at the Museum of History and…
£6.00Rough water in Puget Sound, Seattle.
£6.00The Arthur Foss tug moored at Northwest Seaport, MOHAI, Seattle, WA USA
£6.00Rough water, Puget Sound, Seattle, WA USA,Rough water, Puget Sound, Seattle, WA USA
£6.00Defocussed view of a sailing boat on the water with a small tender boat.
£6.00Rough water on Puget Sound, clouds in the sky.
£6.00Person taking photo of Seattle’s Space Needle, view through a Porthole on a Seattle ferry.
£6.00Seattle skyline and the Space Needle seen through the Changing Form sculpture by…
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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.