A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it. Pictured under the winter sun, the bubbles glow as sunlight bounces off their surface. Photographer Hope Thurston Carter captured the images after blowing the soap bubbles on several freezing days in Michigan. The 52-year-old, of Martin, Michigan, says: 'I got the idea to blow bubbles outside in the winter after I saw several similar photos on the internet.
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
POPE MOBBED BY THOUSANDS OF WORSHIPPERS IN RIO - Thousands of worshippers gather to celebrate the Papal visit on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro ,Brazil .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
ROLLING across a 65-metre-high viaduct in the Alps, the red carriages of the Bernina Express add a splash of colour to the spectacular snow-covered Swiss surroundings .
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
These uninvited guests ELEPHANTLY make their annual trip through the reception of this welcoming lodge .
GIANT garden sculptures don't beat about the bush .
DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .
Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg .
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS - 250 DRIVERS ARRESTED FOR STREET RACING IN BIRMINGHAM- In Pic - The start line on the Heartlands Parkway Nechels Birmingham .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .