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.
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
Full of tired and busy commuters, these underground stations are rarely admired for their architecture or beauty .
TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .
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THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
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A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
