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.
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
WITH their robotic movements and pristine uniforms, these are the sexy traffic girls of North Korea that are becoming iconic figures in the secretive state .
VIBRANT bursts of colour fill the screen as beautiful flowers blossom in these time-lapse videos .
THESE kaleidoscopic-like photographs capture England’s churches and cathedrals in all their glory .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .