Our world is so full of wonders that we may never be able to discover it all in one lifetime. Thankfully we have pictures to experience some of the world’s greatest marvels from time to time.
There’s beauty everywhere, and this curation of some of the most amazing photographs ever is proof that you can find beauty in some of the most unexpected places. We just have to look closely and capture it at the right time.
With the combined power of nature and some brilliant photographers, Bright Side’s list of 100 best photographs is sure to mesmerise you and leave you wanting for more. What’s more? All these photos are presented to you without an ounce of photoshop.
So without further ado, here are 100 of the most stunning non-photoshopped pictures of all time.
Volcanic eruption in Iceland
© Sigurdur Hrafn Stefnisson / www.stefnisson.com
An eagle soaring over a lake in Canada
An Italian beach
© Bernhard Lang
The scarlet eyes of a warty tree frog, Costa Rica
© Ingo Arndt / National Geographic
Yunnan, China
Hotaru Ika firefly squids, Japan
Namib Desert, Africa
Flamingos gathered in the shape of a flamingo, Yucatan Peninsula
Lake Natron, Tanzania
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Forests without end, Russia
Rapeseed fields in Luoping, China
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The sea-like dunes of the Namib Desert
Westerdok District, Amsterdam
Beehive
Frosted trees
Hello there, sister
The chosen one
Holiday village near Arkhangelsk, Russia
This is what happens when a spider and a leaf get together
Birdy hurricane
Alien invasion in Charlotte, USA
On target
© Tim Boyer
Rango plays guitar
©Aditya Permana
Waterspout on Lake Victoria, Uganda
Red cardinal levitating
A cargo train at Morant’s Curve
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
Fishman, Mahabalipuram, India
© Brian Callaway / National Geographic
Angels
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
A toothy sea
That’s how they mine diamonds. Mirny, Yakutia, Russia
Man with Flashlight on Ice creates Beauty
Dog sledding in Greenland
Giant wave illusion
© Alexandra Mednaya
Sleeping
© Dmitry Iskhakov
Long exposure of a plane taking off
Yoga by the sea
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
The Royal British Navy puts on a show
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
The aftermath of a flood in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Explosion illusion
The One
© Michael Shmelev
Tiny ants surrounded a drop of honey, Malaysia
Sky lantern festival in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Kaindy Lake appeared just 100 years ago due to a severe earthquake in Kazakhstan
50 shades of grey
A train on the Kazakh steppe. View from plane window
Spectacular ice formations on a mountaintop in Slovenia
Sunrise in Bushy Park, London
Moravian fields, Czech Republic
Cherries under the water
China’s Gansu Province
Tractor among almond fields, California
Amitabha Buddha Day, Vietnam
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Lake Retba, Senegal
bioindustry
My neighbor Totoro
The gifts of the Earth
Moon rising above Madrid, Spain
Eiffel Tower from the bottom
Fickle moods
Residential area in Hong Kong
Tianzi Mountain (China) — inspiration for the landscapes of Pandora in Avatar
© Richard Janecki
Surfing
An outsider in a red hat
An autumn forest. 50% Downloaded
The Freezing Athabaska River in Jasper National Park, Canada
Times Square, New York, USA. A view from below
A dragon
A boat cuts through newly-formed ice in Marion Bay
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
Snow express
Sunrise in the Kingdom of Bagan, Myanmar
© Andy Ferrington / National Geographic
Annual base jumping contest in Norway
Breaking the sound barrier
Glacier Lake in Banff National Park, Canada
This is what happens if you throw hot water into the air in Antarctica
A galactic tennis ball
Modern dykes, windmills and highways in the Netherlands
A temple covered in ash from the Ontake volcanic eruption, Japan
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Two worlds divided, New York, USA
The Supermoon in a radio telescope
Just an ordinary day’s building — catching a cloud
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, North Korea’s founder
A blue universe in Japan
Hiroki Kondu / National Geographic
Spider webs in Abernethy forest, Scotland
Now I can finally get a tan
Sources: Brightside, Thinkinghumanity
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