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.
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
Megan Brailsford, 32, from Cambridgeshire, met Daniel Dugdale, 29, in September 2020 .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
THIS astonishing film shows the moment a hit-and-run driver ploughed into a woman and a toddler on a Coventry street .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .
LINED up one by one on a deer’s back, these little birds give their wings a break as they catch a ride across London .
SPARKLING bright inside their box, it’s hard to believe these diamonds are made from the cremated remains of the deceased .