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 osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
LUMINOUS green rocks could easily be a beach from Superman's homeland of Krypton .
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS - 250 DRIVERS ARRESTED FOR STREET RACING IN BIRMINGHAM- In Pic - The start line on the Heartlands Parkway Nechels Birmingham .
WONDERS of the world have been transformed into their mini-versions in a seven-year round the world adventure .