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Below are the results of Year 4 of the Natural Landscape Photography Awards! This gallery showcases the photographs chosen by our judging panel. Each image’s RAW file has been vigorously checked to ensure it meets our unique rules.

Earth as seen from satellites as abstract art. Images are gentle landscape abstractions. Telemann, Concerto In D Major For 3 Trumpets. 3rd movement, Adagio.

Earth as seen from satellites. Images are gentle landscape abstractions. Telemann - Concerto Polonois - 1st movement - Dolce Allegro.

First of a sequence of 4 new "landscape as abstract art" music videos of satellite views of earth. Done to Johann Friedrich Fasch - Trumpet Concerto in D, 2nd movement Largo. Some of the colors are created as "false color" but each image has been cropped by Earthview into a spectacular piece of modern art. If I found these in a museum, I'd sit in front of them for hours. My new Landscape and Earthview Playlist lists all 4, as well as the 2 earlier earthview videos of more recognizable landscape features, and another 4 older landscape videos of mine.

I truly needed some quiet after the last week, so made this last night from Daily Mail landscape images to "If Ye Love Me" by Thomas Tallis.

There's nothing like a bath at the end of a long day, and it's a tradition with some serious clout behind it. The ancient Greeks used 'the water cure' to promote their vision of healing the mind and body in tandem, while in the 19th Century, 'taking the waters' became something of an obsession. Doctors on both sides of the Atlantic prescribed hydropathy as a cure for everything from ulcers to hysteria, as well to-do urbanites flocked to al fresco hot spots. And it wasn't just quackery, either; even with the advances of modern medicine, recent research shows therapeutic bathing...

From gaping steel and stone structures to overpasses crafted out of pieces of ancient rope, the world's most spectacular bridges have been unveiled. Globetrotters over at National Geographic Travel have selected 12 of the most awe-inspiring designs that span oceans, lagoons and sun-drenched canyons. If you've got a fear of heights, you might want to skip the Charles Kuonen Suspension Bridge in Zermatt, Switzerland, which stretches 1,620 feet, making it the longest suspension footbridge in the world.

These are the stunning pictures that offer a rare bird's-eye view of the landscape across the United States. Photographer Jassen Todorov snapped the aerial images of rivers, lakes and mountains to show a different angle to American life than skyscrapers and fast food outlets. Some of the destinations that Mr Todorov has photographed from such a height include rock formations in Utah, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Tiny Islands in Florida and Yosemite National Park. He said: 'I have been exploring the US from above for the past four years - I love flying and photographing remote locations - most of...

From majestic animals to sweeping waterfalls and lakes - these are among the best drone images of 2017 that showcase the world from above. The images, chosen by photo-sharing site Dronestagram, reveal 20 of the most stunning shots taken across the world last year. Spectacular scenery is quite common in memorable drone images, but close ups of people and animals was a common theme in 2017.

An incredible image of Antarctic ice mountains shaped like sugar cubes has won a prestigious science photography competition. The Royal Society Publishing photography competition celebrates the power of photography to demonstrate the beauty of nature and science. Polar ecologist Professor Peter Convey took this year's overall winning shot during work with the Cambridge-based British Antarctic Survey. It was commended by the judging panel for its skill in capturing the sheer scale of the icy continent.

From deep gorges to the elusive northern lights, new drone footage shows the mesmerising beauty of Iceland. A team of filmmakers trekked across the volcano-ridden country to capture a range of unique landscapes from the air, earlier this year. Now, in a five-minute long video titled The North Awakens, viewers are taken on a breathtaking flight, soaring above icy glaciers and rugged cliffsides.

New book Masters of Landscape Photography contains the work of 16 renowned photographers Each photographer explains how they got the shot, including technical details The book, published by Ammonite Press, is designed to inspire and even set you on the path to photographic success

The overall winner of the contest was Spanish snapper Jesus M Garcia, who impressed with his shot of the sun rising over Damian Shan in China. Other highly rated images included the Northern Lights over Iceland and sharks catching fish in Russia. Scroll down to feast your eyes on the winning images and some of the most eye-catching short-listed entries.

Over 15 hours of railroad travel compressed down to 7 minutes. Footage from various trips, on various trains, going in various directions. Clearly, I don't fly.

This world of ours is full of beautiful places, places of truly epic proportions. I’ve hand picked 20 places that really made me go “Wow!”, places that really take the cake when it comes to awe-inspiring beauty

Mother Nature is an evil bitch that wants us dead. We know this, we accept it, we try to burn one plant a day as petty revenge against her for it and we move on with our lives. But sometimes her traps are so unsubtle, so obviously, blatantly designed to do nothing but murder human beings in the most awful ways possible that we can't help but stand and applaud her sheer balls. In that spirit, here are five of Mother Nature's more vicious bear traps:

Cole came to America with his family in 1818. With little formal training in the art of painting, Cole was recognized as a landscape artist by his mid-twenties. Beginning in about 1833, Cole maintained a studio in Catskill, New York, where he painted many landscapes of the Catskill Mountains and other areas of the Northern Appalachians. [Images of 10 Cole landscapes]

Joshua Shaw was born in England in 1776 and was already noted as an artist and painter of landscapes when he came to America as a young man. In 1818, Shaw traveled down the east coast to Georgia, sketching and painting as he went, and then trekked into the mountains of Appalachia to make the journey back to his home in Philadelphia. The landscapes which resulted from that trip are the earliest such works featuring scenes in the early-American Backcountry and provide a rare glimpse into a world in which settlers had but recently put down roots.

Landscapes can be a tough subject for any photographer. Black and white landscape photos can be particularly tricky to make interesting. This collection, however, manages to bridge that gap and create some astonishing images. If you would like to try your hand, then check out our list of tutorials at the end of the collection.