FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens. These amazing illustrations were created by Portuguese solicitor and artist Samuel Silva, who has had a strong interest in drawing since he was two years old. ‘I have been interested in drawing since the very first time I ever touched a pencil and a sheet of paper, when I was two years old.’ says 31 year old Samuel, now of London. ‘After that day, I never stopped drawing. Unlike most children, I didn’t start by scribbling; I just instinctively drew straight away.
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
NEVER mind being careful not to choke on your food, this mother bird has a bigger challenge on her hands, as her ravenous offspring impatiently launches its head down into her stomach .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
Throwing a right hook as he launches onto his opponent with his gnarling teeth at the ready, this is the OTTER-LY ruthless showdown between two otters .
A British photographer has captured the beauty of London in a stunning series of landscapes shots .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .