The 100 Most Amazing Photographs Ever Taken without Using Photoshop

When an artist fully embraces nature in their work, often times brilliant artwork is produced as a result. Even though the invention of Photoshop has led to eye-catching artwork that would have been impossible otherwise, there’s just something about genuinely natural images that can’t be replicated or truly bettered. With this in mind, check out the 100 photographs below to experience this magical sense of intimate appreciation for yourself.

Hot water cast into freezing Antarctic air

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Tennis ball galaxy

© Abhijeet Kumar

 

Turbine highways in the Netherlands

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Volcanic ash temple in Japan

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A street runs through it in New York

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Super-moon globe

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Cloud-bucket

© trynidada

 

100th anniversary of Kim Il-sung’s birth in North Korea

©Ilya Pitalev

 

Blue skies (and fields) in Japan

© Hiroki Kondu/National Geographic

 

Abernethy forest of webs in Scotland

© Mark Hamblin

 

Snow beach

© Gray Malin

 

Lightning volcanoes in Iceland

© Sigurdur Hrafn Stefnisson/www.stefnisson.com

 

Eagle lake in Canada

© Fred Johns

 

Beach Italia

© Bernhard Lang

 

Scarlet frog eye in Costa Rica

© Ingo Arndt/National Geographic

 

Yunnan in China

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Hotaru Ika firefly squid in Japan

© Takehito Miyatake

 

Namib Desert in Africa

© Beth McCarley

 

Flamingos in the Yucatan Peninsula

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Lake Natron in Tanzania

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Endless forests in Russia

© Ivan Letokhin

 

Rapeseed fields in Luoping, China

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Sea-like dunes in the Namib Desert

© Nick Lefebvre

 

Westerdok District, Amsterdam

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Beehive

© Stefano Landenna

 

Trees of frost

© Jan Bainar

 

Butterflies and turtles

© Twipz Biswas

 

Water walker

© Fox Grom

 

Village in Arkhangelsk, Russia

© Fedor Savintsev

 

Leaf spider

© Bertrand Kulik

 

Bird-nado

© 진철 김

 

Charlotte, USA

© Vincent Brady

 

American Eagle

© Tim Boyer

 

Leaf guitar

©Aditya Permana

 

Lake Victoria waterspout in Uganda

© Julia Cumes

 

Levitation

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Morant’s Curve

© Frank Gunn

 

Mari El, Russia

© Eduard Nikolaev / National Geographic

 

Rosetta probe comet-selfie

© ESA/Rosetta / Philae/CIVA

 

Colorado, USA

© Jeff Howe

 

Fish-human in Mahabalipuram, India

© Brian Callaway / National Geographic

 

Angel birds

© Robert Radomski

 

San Francisco, USA

© Peter Majkut

 

Miklukhin, Rostov region, Russia

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Accessories

© Svenja Jödicke

 

Tooth shore

© Patrice Carre

 

Diamond mine in Mirny, Yakutia, Russia

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Flashlight on Ice

© Henry Liu

 

Greenland dog sledding

© Joe Capra

 

Illusion of waves

© Alexandra Mednaya

 

Asleep

© Dmitry Iskhakov

 

Long takeoff

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Sea yoga

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Crayfish capturing world

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Invisible Jeep

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Dancer paper

© JR Artist

 

Royal British Navy show

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Ice road, Chukotka Peninsula, Russia

© Elena Chernyshova/National Geographic

 

Statue of Christ at bottom of Atlantic near Key Largo island, USA

© Lawrence Cruciana

 

After the flood in Ljubljana, Slovenia

© Ales Komovec

 

Illusion of explosion

© Corey Arnold

 

Sun lion

© Michael Shmelev

 

Honey ants in Malaysia

© Husni Che Ngah

 

Sky lantern festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand

© Sherry Zhao

 

New Kaindy Lake in Kazakhstan

© Dina Julayeva

 

50 shades of rays

© Eduardo Lopez Negrete

 

Train on the Kazakh steppe from a plane

© Slava Stepanov

 

Ice mountain in Slovenia

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Bushy Park, London

© Max Ellis

 

Moravian fields in Czech Republic

© Pawel Kucharski

 

Water cherries

© Laurens Kaldeway

 

Gansu Province, China

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Almond field tractor in California

© Robert Holmes

 

Amitabha Buddha Day in Vietnam

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Lake Retba in Senegal

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Totoro

© Tanja Brandt

 

Earth gifts

© Jorn Allan

 

Moon rising in Madrid, Spain

©Yil Dori

 

Bottom-up Eiffel Tower

© Sylke Scholz

 

Rainbow lightning

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Hong Kong

© Lingfei Tan

 

Tianzi Mountain in China

©Richard Janecki

 

Surf’s up

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Red hat

© Vyacheslav Mishchenko

 

Seasons change

©Dan Tivada

 

Athabaska River in Jasper National Park, Canada

© Harry Lichtman

 

Times Square, New York

©Andrew Thomas

 

Dragon leaf

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Ice breaker

© Peter Pereira

 

Kallur lighthouse on Kalsoy island, Faroe Islands

© Grégoire Sieuw / National Geographic

 

Potato land

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Squirrely games

© Vadim Trunov

 

Snow train

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Kingdom of Bagan in Myanmar

© Andy Ferrington/National Geographic

 

Base jumping in Norway

© Ratmir Nagimyanov

 

Broken sound barrier

© Darek Siusta

 

Glacier Lake, Banff National Park, Canada

© Ben Leshchinsky/National Geographic

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