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
RACING through the mountain range on horseback, the Kazakh people practice their ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain .
TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .
AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
A British jewellery designer with a passion for London's iconic Gherkin has created a pen with an INK-REDIBLE price tag of £27,500 .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
These uninvited guests ELEPHANTLY make their annual trip through the reception of this welcoming lodge .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .