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.
WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
WELCOME to the Temple of Zoom where you can “experience” sliding down a Mayan temple into shark infested waters .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .