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.
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
TOWERING 65 metres into the sky, this terrifying accent is a dream for climbers .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
This was the chaotic scene when the driver of a 4x4 vehicle became periously trapped under his vehicle for an HOUR when it overturned after a crash on a busy motorway .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
These are the faces of orphans suffering from the horrifying effects of chemical warfare .