A COUNCIL has come under fire for slapping fines on people’s GRAVESTONES for breaching petty regulations on pot plants. Disgusted mourners have arrived at their loved ones graves to find penalty notices insensitively stuck to the headstones, demanding money for having more than one pot plant. Several visitors to Alfreton Cemetery in Derbyshire were met with a letter from Amber Valley Borough Council stating they had to pay for a garden permit.
A little caterpillar fearlessly scampers down a branch and confronts a praying mantis .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
A host of websites that are almost twenty years old are collecting a cult following thanks to their retro appeal .
Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .