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
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
Full of tired and busy commuters, these underground stations are rarely admired for their architecture or beauty .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
Pic By HotSpot Media - PARROT RIDES ON THE TUBE - THIS pretty boy could be forgiven for forgetting his Oyst-aaarrrgh-card .
A cheeky chipmunk offers some of his spare food, before deciding against the idea and shoving the extra peanut into his already crammed mouth .
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
