Drone photos show the elegance of animals in the wild from a perspective humans rarely see

Look at the white outline and you might see a familiar peak. The photographer, Mohammad Alqattan, said on Instagram that it resembles Mount Fuji.

What you’re really seeing is hundreds of flamingos. Each white dot is a bird. They were migrating through Kuwait when Alqattan took these photos, according to the BBC.

In December 2023, a sperm whale got stranded on a sandbank near Perth, Australia. Sadly, the animal was distressed and underweight, a marine mammal expert told CNN at the time.

After the whale died, at least one animal got a meal, and photographer Toby Nicol got footage. “If you look along the jaw line, you can clearly see the spots” where the shark started taking bites, Nicol wrote on Instagram.

Silke Hullmann captured white flamingos soaring above Lake Magadi in Kenya. “The area is incredibly beautiful in an apocalyptic way,” the photographer said in an interview about a similar photo that won an Exposure One Award.

Iceland is home to over 600 geothermal springs. Miki Spitzer captured this one, describing it on Instagram as resembling a dragon’s eye.

Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall volcano was dormant for 800 years before erupting in March 2021. It continued to gush lava for months.

Photographer Daniel Viñé Garcia wrote on Instagram about an “epic morning” filming the volcano and visiting again just before it stopped erupting.

The lava moving through black rock resembles a fiery tongue in a gaping mouth.