A little caterpillar fearlessly scampers down a branch and confronts a praying mantis. As the green praying mantis lifts its body and prepares for battles, the amber bug simply stares into the face of the much larger rival. Photographer Monica Anantyowati captured the tense staredown in a garden close to her home in Malang, Indonesia.
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
At first glance what might look like ordinary rusty bridge and road railings, are in fact amazing works of art .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
BURSTING colours of reds, pinks and purples give the illusion of a collection of stunning flowers .
With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .