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 Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .
A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .
AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
LEAPING through the air this determined little mouse is on a mission for food .
These adorable pictures show the moment two cuddly red panda cubs take their first look at the outside world and are weighed for the very first time .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .