This is the peak of Mount Cook, New Zealand. I captured this beautiful view during a recent flight around the Aoraki area with its wonderful mountains, glaciers and valleys.

For me - and I guess for most of other people, too - reaching the top of one of these mountains is a lifelong but yet unreachable dream.

Canon EOS 5DS R.

Carl Zeiss Milvus 2.8/18mm

Capture One Pro 11

Photo Settings: 18mm, f/5, 1/320 second, ISO 100.

I took this photo near of our hotel at Coron-Corong Beach.

This is Bacuit Bay in El Nido, Palawan, Philippines.

Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM.

Photo Settings: 50mm, f/5, 1/125 second, ISO 100.

Map: 11.1597, 119.3978

Planetary nebulae like the Helix are sculpted late in a Sun-like star's life by a torrential gush of gases escaping from the dying star. They have nothing to do with planet formation, but got their name because they look like planetary disks when viewed through a small telescope. With higher magnification, the classic "donut-hole" in the middle of a planetary nebula can be resolved. Based on the nebula's distance of 650 light-years, its angular size corresponds to a huge ring with a diameter of nearly 3 light-years. That's approximately three-quarters of the distance between our Sun and the nearest star.

The Helix Nebula is a popular target of amateur astronomers and can be seen with binoculars as a ghostly, greenish cloud in the constellation Aquarius. Larger amateur telescopes can resolve the ring-shaped nebula, but only the largest ground-based telescopes can resolve the radial streaks. After careful analysis, astronomers concluded the nebula really isn't a bubble, but is a cylinder that happens to be pointed toward Earth.

Credit: NASA, NOAO, ESA, the Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner (STScI), and T.A. Rector (NRAO).

A beautiful day near Trollstigen. I took this picture in July 2015 during my trip through Norway. The weather was really nice at that day which is not usual in Norway ;) ... I'll be back this year with my tent and camp there for a couple of days.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 24-70mm f/4L IS USM.

Photo Settings: 24mm, f/10, 1/200 second, ISO 100.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). Pluto's surface sports a remarkable range of subtle colors, enhanced in this view to a rainbow of pale blues, yellows, oranges, and deep reds. Many landforms have their own distinct colors, telling a complex geological and climatological story that scientists have only just begun to decode. The image resolves details and colors on scales as small as 0.8 miles (1.3 kilometers).

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

A view on Stavrovouni hill, located near Larnaca (Cyprus), on top of which there is a monastery. Shot during the sunset from a nearby wind farm.

Voigtlander 15mm f/7.1, CP filter, Adobe Lightroom CC.

Red and green aurora, Milky Way, and a passing meteor in a single composition. Taken Memorial Day weekend at Glacier National Park before Going To The Sun Road was even open. We drove the long way around in the middle of the night from Apgar to the east St. Mary entrance just to catch the Milky Way on St. Mary Lake. We were incredibly fortunate that evening.

Lightroom 6.10, Slik Mini II, Vello ShutterBoss II.

Canon EOS 6D, Samyang 14mm F2.8 IF ED MC Aspherical.

Photo Settings: 30 seconds, ISO 800.

Map: 48.6889, -113.5272

In reality it is water on oil on soapy water. With a colorful background.

A little correction with Affinity Photo.

Nikon D90, Nikon AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 60mm f/2.8G ED.

Photo Settings: 60mm, f/4, 1/250 second, ISO 200.

Adobe Photoshop CS6, Hoya HD2 Circular Polarizer 82mm filter, MeFOTO A1350.

Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM.

Photo Settings: 16mm, f/20, 20 seconds, ISO 100.

After a day with somehow cloudy and rainy weather, we'd been really lucky to get a great sunset on top of the Empire State Building. We stayed there for three hours, watching the Big Apple first getting darker and darker and later becoming the city of stars. What a great place to be!

Capture One Pro 9.

Canon EOS 5DS R

, Canon EF 24-70mm f2.8L II USM.

Map: 40.7483, -73.9855