This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain. From Death Valley National Park in California to Mount Saint Helens in Washington, these stunning photos were taken by Ryan Dyar, of Seattle, Washington. The 30-year-old photographer has travelled coast to coast across America, capturing the natural beauty of the country along the way. He says, 'I try to bring three a dimensional sense of life to a two dimensional medium – almost as if you could walk into the frame.
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .