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.
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
GIANT garden sculptures don't beat about the bush .
LUMINOUS green rocks could easily be a beach from Superman's homeland of Krypton .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .
ROLLING across a 65-metre-high viaduct in the Alps, the red carriages of the Bernina Express add a splash of colour to the spectacular snow-covered Swiss surroundings .
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .
A photographer from the United Arab Emirates travelled to Pakistan where he captured the lives of local people in a series of expressive portraits .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
