From foster care to the MAGICAL world of cosplay, a young girl’s dreams become reality after being adopted by a photography loving couple. 10-year-old Alice Lewis has assumed the identity of Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy of Oz and Joan of Arc, thanks to her photographer mum and cosplay, a performance art which uses costumes and fashion accessories. For years Alice played make-believe while she dreamed of the day she had a happily ever after with a family of her own, which she found, aged 7, when she was adopted by James and Kelly Lewis, from Atlanta, Georgia.
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
Say cheese! This cheeky chappy isn’t in the mood to live up to his scary reputation as he is pictured here cracking a killer smile as he goes about his daily business .
A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .
WELCOME to what could be the world's tallest TOTALLY wooden construction .
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
TOWERING 65 metres into the sky, this terrifying accent is a dream for climbers .