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.
FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .
Grandmother Janet Kirby was told she couldn't board her plane home after being accused of assault .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
A couple celebrated tying the knot with a spectacular Alice in Wonderland-themed wedding reception .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .
FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .