CREATED over 60 years ago, this weighty machine was the Photoshop of its time. The Adam’s Retouching Machine, which weighs two-and-a-half stone, was invented in 1947 and gave photographers the opportunity to perfect their pictures. Instead of uploading images to a computer, photographers would place their negative under the magnifying glass. Blemishes in the picture could then be smoothed out by using a retouching pencil, assisted by the gentle vibrations of the machine.
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
A diver explores the crystal clear waters of the Silfra canyon in southern Iceland, which is the only place on Earth where you can dive or snorkel between two continental plates .
CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .
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A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
WELCOME to what could be the world's tallest TOTALLY wooden construction .
A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
