This breathtaking photo may look like a fairytale scene
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As the sun sets, it casts a stunning glow across the face of the Dolomites, Italy.
The photo was taken by Kevin Grace, from Dublin, and highly commended in the International Society of Nature and Wildlife Photographers’ Weather Watch photo competition.
The 49-year-old said: “It was taken in northern Italy at a place where my wife and I love to hill walk.
“It is a most beautiful and picturesque place and so, as an enthusiastic landscape photographer I am very drawn to the region.
“The image was taken at Passo Giau, a place I have photographed many times, but on this particular evening, all the conditions were right for a beautiful sunset.”
A lack of lighting, however, in this bluebell scene, below, is what made Ceri Jones' snap such a hit with the judges.
The beautiful photo of a bluebell woods in the mist was taken in Oxfordshire.
(Photo: Ceri Jones / SWNS.com)
Another contender, this time on the continent, was Anita Hummel's cloud formation near Freibug, in Germany.
(Photo: Anita Hummel / SWNS.com)
Meanwhile a church hidden under a blanket of snow, in Vuoksa River, Russia got snapper Igor Sherman commended.
(Photo: Igor Sherman / SWNS.com)
This stormy sea scene may look like something out of a film, but it was actually taken on our shores in Anglesey.
Pro photographer Antony Zacharias captured the scene while storms brewed at the Penmon Lighthouse.
(Photo: Antony Zacharias / SWNS.com)
Wind may be a pain in the best of times but this windswept scene, taken by Gareth Norman, in East Sussex showed that it can indeed be beautiful.
(Photo: Gareth Norman / SWNS.com)
The Northern Lights are always a spectacle for those lucky enough to witness them but they were made the more special in this photo taken by Peter Jones.
(Photo: PW Jones / SWNS.com)
(Photo: Nick Jackson / SWNS.com)
Standing in front of the aurora, Abisko, Sweden, by Nick Jackson
(Photo: Antony Zacharias / SWNS.com)
Talisker Bay storm, Isle of Skye, by Antony Zacharias
(Photo: Carl Crumley / SWNS.com)
Canyonlands Sunset Thunderstorm, Utah by Carl Crumley.
(Photo: Hamish Scott-Brown / SWNS.com)
Sunrise over Flecknoe, Warwickshire, by Hamish Scott-Brown
The overall winner from hundreds of entries was a foggy sunrise in Flecknoe, Warwickshire, captured by 52-year-old snapper Hamish Scott-Brown.
Hamish said: "I know there are the die hard landscape photographers who'll camp up all night in a one man tent and get the ultimate shot - but I'm not one of them. "I'd seen the weather was going to be a foggy day on that December morning.