STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event. Shot over the Grand Canyon and even downtown Los Angeles, these amazing images of lightning were taken by American photographer Scott Stulberg, 57. His love of lightning led him to move to the state of Arizona, renowned for its high frequency of storms. ‘No matter where I am, I always feel like a little kid again when I see lightning,’says Scott, of Sedona, Arizona.
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .
This was the chaotic scene when the driver of a 4x4 vehicle became periously trapped under his vehicle for an HOUR when it overturned after a crash on a busy motorway .
Throwing a right hook as he launches onto his opponent with his gnarling teeth at the ready, this is the OTTER-LY ruthless showdown between two otters .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .