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
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .
PUCKERING up and enjoying some quality time, these are the most lovable monkeys on the planet .
If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
VENTURING into the ocean with self-made spears and nets, the fishermen of Zanzibar put their lives on the line when they catch food for their families .
Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .
