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These incredible images were nominated as finalists for the Nature Photographer of the Year competition for showcasing the beauty of the natural world.
Organised by Nature Talks, there are a variety of sections including landscape, underwater, wildlife and storytelling - with 19,547 images entered from 95 different countries.
The overall winner was Italian photographer Roberto Marchegiani, who was named Nature Photographer of the Year for 2020.
His winning shot was of a giraffe emerging from the forest in Lake Nakuru, Kenya, during the rainy season. Roberto and his friends saw a group of giraffes walking in front of woodland.
But instead of snapping the animals together, Roberto focused on an area of the trees which he thought would frame the long-legged animal well and waited. Eventually a tall creature appeared in his lens, and he got the wonderful shot he was after.
Untamed nature in all of its wild, untouched beauty.
That s what these winning and commended entries in the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020 competition hosted by the German Society for Nature Photography (GDT) show.
The contest, which aims to celebrate modern nature photography, attracted 19,000 entries from 38 countries.
The overall winning image, A Monkey s Mask, was taken by Jasper Doest from the Netherlands and shows a snow monkey performing tricks in a traditional sake house north of Tokyo.
Professor Dr Beate Jessel, patron of the competition, said: Photographs have a unique way of stirring up a great deal of emotion in the viewer within a few seconds. This is especially true of the images presented at this year s GDT competition European Wildlife Photographer of the Year.