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.
SHOVELLING food into his mouth, this hungry gorilla enjoys a peaceful moment at dinner time .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .