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.
These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .
A pair of snarling foxes go paw-to-paw and brawl after unexpectedly crossing paths .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
FROM COLOURFUL autumn leaves to living trees at first glance you might miss these people blended with nature .
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
A mischievous fox cub demonstrates his playful side by biting his sibling’s tail .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
A frilled lizard appears to be belting out a tune as it sits in a tree with its mouth open wide .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
