SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive. Equipped with a bird, gas lamp and net, he fishes without the aid of a rod by using an unusual method - first practiced in 960 AD. The fisherman, pictured in southern China, releases a cormorant bird which dives into the water and retrieves a carp, before returning to the fisherman’s reed raft. The stunning images of cormorant fishing were captured on the River Li in Guilin, China by Russian photographer Viktoriia Rogotneva when he visited the fishermen of Guilin.
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
Destroyed buildings and overturned cars are seen after a huge tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City, May 20, 2013 .
A TAXIDERMY truck spotted in America’s Deep South could be the most gruesome wagon on the road .
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 .
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 .