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
HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .
Pic By HotSpot Media - PARROT RIDES ON THE TUBE - THIS pretty boy could be forgiven for forgetting his Oyst-aaarrrgh-card .
A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
DASHING through the snow, this little stoat is on the lookout for a Christmas feast .
Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .