The 100 best photographs ever taken without photoshop

Nature and humankind are both great artists, and when they join forces, amazing masterpieces can be produced.

Today Bright Side has 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 tea into the air in Arctic

© imgur  

A galactic tennis ball

© Abhijeet Kumar  

Modern dykes, windmills and highways in the Netherlands

© imgur  

A temple covered in ash from the Ontake volcanic eruption, Japan

© media.jrn  

Two worlds divided, New York, USA

© imgur  

The Supermoon in a radio telescope

© imgur  

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

© (с) Fred Johns  

An Italian beach

© Bernhard Lang  

The scarlet eyes of a warty tree frog, Costa Rica

© Ingo Arndt   © National Geographic  

Yunnan, China

© Dimitra Stasinopoulou  

Hotaru Ika firefly squids, Japan

© Takehito Miyatake  

Namib Desert, Africa

© Beth McCarley  

Flamingos gathered in the shape of a flamingo, Yucatan Peninsula

© nationalgeographic  

Lake Natron, Tanzania

© greentooth  

Forests without end, Russia

© Ivan Letokhin  

Rapeseed fields in Luoping, China

© tourismontheedge  

The sea-like dunes of the Namib Desert

© (с) Nick Lefebvre  

Westerdok District, Amsterdam

© AirPano  

Beehive

© (с) Stefano Landenna  

Frosted trees

© Jan Bainar  

Hello there, sister

© (с) Twipz Biswas  

The chosen one

© Fox Grom  

Holiday village near Arkhangelsk, Russia

© Fedor Savintsev  

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

© (c)Aditya Permana  

Waterspout on Lake Victoria, Uganda

© Julia Cumes  

Red cardinal levitating

© reddit  

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

Unknown author

Highly artistic make-up

© Svenja Jödicke  

A toothy sea

© (с) Patrice Carre  

That’s how they mine diamonds. Mirny, Yakutia, Russia

© gelio.livejournal  

Man with Flashlight on Ice creates Beauty

© (с) Henry Liu  

Dog sledding in Greenland

© Joe Capra  

Giant wave illusion

© Alexandra Mednaya  

Sleeping

© (с) Dmitry Iskhakov  

Long exposure of a plane taking off

© reddit  

Yoga by the sea

© OMGFacts  

It’s just a crayfish in the bucket but it looks like it’s capturing the world

© zhangzishi  

Jeep ghost

© twitter  

Dancers on paper, USA

© JR Artist  

The Royal British Navy puts on a show

© thefewgoodmen  

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

© Weather-Photos.NET  

Sunrise in Bushy Park, London

© Max Ellis  

Moravian fields, Czech Republic

© Pawel Kucharski  

Cherries under the water

© Laurens Kaldeway  

China’s Gansu Province

© taringa  

Tractor among almond fields, California

© (с) Robert Holmes  

Amitabha Buddha Day, Vietnam

© moya-planeta  

Lake Retba, Senegal

© bioindustry  

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

© tumblr  

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

© imgur   ©    

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

© tumblr  

Wingardium Leviosa

© Vadim Trunov  

Snow express

© imgur  

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