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
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .
GLAMPING is taken to a whole new level in the form of the luxurious Pop-Up Hotel .
Like a scene from a fairytale, THOUSANDS of fireflies create an enchanting glow as they dance in a forest .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
AIRPORT staff have been put on alert after diet pills that come in grenade shaped containers sparked security alerts .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .
A BAMBI was dramatically caught in mid-air by a greedy Nile crocodile in a once-in-a-million flying pincer move .
