From giant mountains to vast deserts, an American photographer spent a year capturing the diverse and beautiful landscape of the United States. The breath-taking images were taken by Randy P. Martin, 30, of Portland, Oregon, who travelled hundreds of miles across America and documented the most diverse and beautiful settings along the way. For Randy, the past year has seen him undertake countless road trips, navigate his route with maps made from napkins - with the help of Google Earth, walk miles across fields of lava rock and wake at 3am to see sunrise at 14,000 feet
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
WITH their robotic movements and pristine uniforms, these are the sexy traffic girls of North Korea that are becoming iconic figures in the secretive state .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
These are the amazing close up pictures of North Korea's mass games - after photographers were previously banned from taking shots so close to the dazzling formation dances .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
THESE are the Disney Princesses you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley .
