Freezing alps, northern lights, early morning fog and more: Breathtaking landscape photos of 2023

A deer is seen through early morning fog in Richmond Park, London, Britain, September 15, 2023.

Poppies bloom in the sun in the middle of a wheat field in Blecourt, France, June 9, 2023.

Alpinists Mat Cooper and Daniel Trevena start a tour to Les Cosmiques from the Aiguille du Midi during a heatwave in the Mont-Blanc region in Chamonix, France, August 23, 2023.

A maintenance worker crosses a bridge at Wet Sleddale Reservoir in Penrith, Britain, November 3, 2023.

Horsetail Fall at El Capitan is seen during sunset in Yosemite National Park, California, February 15, 2023.

A long exposure shows star trails behind Lopez Mountain during the annual Perseid meteor shower period near the town of Bariloche, Argentina, August 11, 2023.

A woman walks with a dog during morning fog at Tiergarten Park in Berlin, Germany, September 27, 2023.

A woman walks in a snow-covered park during the first snowfall of the year in Kyiv, Ukraine, November 22, 2023.

A view of power-generating windmill turbines at a wind park near Parndorf, Austria, July 13, 2023.

The Northern Lights, also called Aurora Borealis, illuminate the night sky over a boat on the shore in Sommaroy, Norway, November 19, 2023.

A vehicle drives through a snowy landscape along the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area's scenic loop drive in Clark County near Las Vegas, Nevada, March 1, 2023.

Trees are pictured in a field after sunset near Vic, Spain, March 15, 2023.

Steam and ashes emerge from the Popocatepetl volcano as seen from the town of Santiago Xalizintla, Mexico, May 12, 2023.

A man uses laser light toward the sky as the Milky Way galaxy is seen in the sky around camp in the natural reserve area of Wadi Al-Hitan, or the Valley of the Whales, at the desert of Al Fayoum Governorate, southwest of Cairo, Egypt, August 12, 2023.

Pillars of light, which are optical atmospheric phenomena, beam up from the ground into the sky behind residential buildings in Omsk, Russia, January 2, 2023.

Trees stand in a yellow rapeseed field in Ramillies near Cambrai, France, May 3, 2023.