CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia. Away from modern civilization, children living in the Simien Mountains spend their gruelling days herding, or carrying, animals and walking miles through the rocky terrain. From the age of five these children are responsible for goats and sheep in the highlands and when they do rest, the boys and girls are schooled in classrooms made from mud, rocks and wood. German photographer Mario Gerth trekked 3,000 metres up the Ethiopian mountain range to visit this group of Tigray people and their hardy children and witness their unorthodox lifestyle.
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .
PAWS for thought as you feast your eyes on this rare bear bathing session .
LIKE A living balloon this baitball of sardines is ready to burst when threatened by a pointy nosed sailfish .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
A NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .
The view from this rooftop pool is sure to make most holidaymakers envious .
VENTURING into the ocean with self-made spears and nets, the fishermen of Zanzibar put their lives on the line when they catch food for their families .