Waxwing and Rowan berries in the snow: Bohemian waxwings lust after Rowan berries in winter. They fly around in big flocks looking for the most delicious berries but they are picky eaters and do not just go for any berry. They skip certain trees and postpone eating the berries in others for later. This image was winter of the Ecology and Environmental Science category. It was taken by Alwin Hardenbol.

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This is an image of the Orion Nebula processed with a 6-filter colour mapping process. This process combines data from six different filters (Red, Green, Blue, Ha, SII, and OIII). The resulting image contains detail and colour not usually seen with the normal RGB processing. The photo, called The Orion Nebula, was taken by Bernard Miller and was Astronomy Category Runner up.

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This picture called Colossus was taken by Alejandro Roman Gonzalez. It was runner up in the Earth Science category. It shows the shadow of mount Teide in Tenerife at sunset as it towers over Slooh Teide observatory. The sea of clouds shrouded the landscape at lower altitude, hiding neighbouring islands and the bustling activity of the coast of Tenerife.

The colours in the sky are due to the reflection of the different wavelength of the white light as the sun sinks below the horizon.

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This image of Oryx in Namibia was runner up for the Ecology and Environmental Science Category. The photo, called Mars, was taken by Dr Roberto García Roa. ‘When I observed these Oryx resting in an arid place of Namibia, my mind immediately saw a group of antelopes on the surface of Mars.

The landscape was arid and red and it evoked a distant planet where we were invaders’, said Mr García Roa.

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Wings experience substantial accidental collisions during the life span of a flying insects. Such collisions often result in irreversible wing damage and, therefore, could significantly influence insect flight ability. This image called Broken Window was taken by Dr Hamed Rajabi. It was runner up in the Micro-imaging category.