COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society. Known as sadhus, they shun all home comforts for a life spent inside caves, forests and temples and can be found across India and Nepal. German banker and photographer Mario Gerth decided to find and photograph the sadhu people. The 38-year-old of Erfurt, Germany, says: “I have been obsessed with the sadhus for many years and set off in 2013 to look for them.
SNOWBOARDING in your £2,000 wedding dress sounds like a nightmare for most brides .
ESCAPING A LANDFILL FUTURE, these amazing science fiction inspired sculptures are made from everyday objects .
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
SEA LIFE and greenery in one shot show nature at its very best .
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .
A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .
Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .