A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .

FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .

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 .

LUMINOUS green rocks could easily be a beach from Superman's homeland of Krypton .

The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .

A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book .

A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .

An elegant snowy owl spreads her wings and glides effortlessly above the snow covered field .

While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .

WRAPPED up in classy headscarves, these adorable pooches are the picture of sophistication .

Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .

STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .