Nature and humankind are both great artists, and when they join forces, amazing masterpieces can be produced.
Today we have collected for you works in which the combined efforts of mother nature and photographic artists have captured magic moments showing the wondrous diversity of modern life and the natural world.
This is what happens if you throw hot water into the air in Antarctica
A galactic tennis ball
© Abhijeet Kumar
Modern dykes, windmills and highways in the Netherlands
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A temple covered in ash from the Ontake volcanic eruption, Japan
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Two worlds divided, New York, USA
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The Supermoon in a radio telescope
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Just an ordinary day’s building — catching a cloud
© trynidada
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, North Korea’s founder
©Ilya Pitalev
A blue universe in Japan
© Hiroki Kondu / National Geographic
Spider webs in Abernethy forest, Scotland
© Mark Hamblin
Now I can finally get a tan
© Gray Malin
Volcanic eruption in Iceland
© © Sigurdur Hrafn Stefnisson / www.stefnisson.com
An eagle soaring over a lake in Canada
© Fred Johns
An Italian beach
© Bernhard Lang
The scarlet eyes of a warty tree frog, Costa Rica
© Ingo Arndt / National Geographic
Yunnan, China
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Hotaru Ika firefly squids, Japan
© Takehito Miyatake
Namib Desert, Africa
© Beth McCarley
Flamingos gathered in the shape of a flamingo, Yucatan Peninsula
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Lake Natron, Tanzania
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Forests without end, Russia
© Ivan Letokhin
Rapeseed fields in Luoping, China
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The sea-like dunes of the Namib Desert
© Nick Lefebvre
Westerdok District, Amsterdam
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Beehive
© Stefano Landenna
Frosted trees
© Jan Bainar
Hello there, sister
© Twipz Biswas
The chosen one
© Fox Grom
Holiday village near Arkhangelsk, Russia
© Fedor Savintsev
This is what happens when a spider and a leaf get together
© Bertrand Kulik
Birdy hurricane
© 진철 김
Alien invasion in Charlotte, USA
© Vincent Brady
A helicopter near Yosemite waterfall, USA
© Adriano Neves
On target
© Tim Boyer
Rango plays guitar
©Aditya Permana
Waterspout on Lake Victoria, Uganda
© Julia Cumes
Red cardinal levitating
A cargo train at Morant’s Curve
© Frank Gunn
Winter’s abrupt arrival, Mari El, Russia
© Eduard Nikolaev / National Geographic
Selfie with comet, 290,000,000 miles from Earth (courtesy of the Rosetta probe)
© ESA / Rosetta / Philae / CIVA
Autumn and winter meet in Colorado, USA
© Jeff Howe
Fishman, Mahabalipuram, India
© Brian Callaway / National Geographic
Angels
© Robert Radomski
A ghost town, San Francisco, USA
© Peter Majkut
Autumn and winter meet in Miklukhin, Rostov region, Russia
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Highly artistic make-up
© Svenja Jödicke
A toothy sea
© Patrice Carre
That’s how they mine diamonds. Mirny, Yakutia, Russia
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Man with Flashlight on Ice creates Beauty
© Henry Liu
Dog sledding in Greenland
© Joe Capra
Giant wave illusion
© Alexandra Mednaya
Sleeping
© Dmitry Iskhakov
Long exposure of a plane taking off
Yoga by the sea
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It’s just a crayfish in the bucket but it looks like it’s capturing the world
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Jeep ghost
Dancers on paper, USA
© JR Artist
The Royal British Navy puts on a show
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A road on ice, Chukotka Peninsula, Russia
© Elena Chernyshova / National Geographic
A Statue of Christ covered with corals at the bottom of the Atlantic near Key Largo island, USA
© Lawrence Cruciana
The aftermath of a flood in Ljubljana, Slovenia
© Ales Komovec
Explosion illusion
© Corey Arnold
The One
© Michael Shmelev
Tiny ants surrounded a drop of honey, Malaysia
© Husni Che Ngah
Sky lantern festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand
© Sherry Zhao
Kaindy Lake appeared just 100 years ago due to a severe earthquake in Kazakhstan
© Dina Julayeva
50 shades of grey
© Eduardo Lopez Negrete
A train on the Kazakh steppe. View from plane window
© Slava Stepanov
Spectacular ice formations on a mountaintop in Slovenia
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Sunrise in Bushy Park, London
© Max Ellis
Moravian fields, Czech Republic
© Pawel Kucharski
Cherries under the water
© Laurens Kaldeway
China’s Gansu Province
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Tractor among almond fields, California
© Robert Holmes
Amitabha Buddha Day, Vietnam
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Lake Retba, Senegal
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My neighbor Totoro
© Tanja Brandt
The gifts of the Earth
© Jorn Allan
Moon rising above Madrid, Spain
©Yil Dori
Eiffel Tower from the bottom
© Sylke Scholz
Fickle moods
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Residential area in Hong Kong
© Lingfei Tan
Tianzi Mountain (China) — inspiration for the landscapes of Pandora in Avatar
©Richard Janecki
Surfing
© Lucas Tozzi
An outsider in a red hat
© Vyacheslav Mishchenko
An autumn forest. 50% Downloaded
©Dan Tivada
The Freezing Athabaska River in Jasper National Park, Canada
© Harry Lichtman
Times Square, New York, USA. A view from below
©Andrew Thomas
A dragon
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A boat cuts through newly-formed ice in Marion Bay
© Peter Pereira
Kallur lighthouse on picturesque cliffs on Kalsoy island, Faroe Islands
© Grégoire Sieuw / National Geographic
It must be wonderful having a secluded home all to yourself — and some land to plant potatoes
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Wingardium Leviosa
© Vadim Trunov
Snow express
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Sunrise in the Kingdom of Bagan, Myanmar
© Andy Ferrington / National Geographic
Annual base jumping contest in Norway
© Ratmir Nagimyanov
Breaking the sound barrier
© Darek Siusta
Glacier Lake in Banff National Park, Canada
© Ben Leshchinsky / National Geographic
