From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland. The elusive natural phenomenon, also known as the Northern Lights, was photographed by Lana Tannir when she was on a six day trip through northern Finland. The 24-year-old student visited Urho Kekkonen National Park, located in Saariselkä, Finland, as well as a nearby igloo village, named Kakslauttanen. Lana, of Starnberg, Germany, says “Seeing the Northern Lights cannot simply be described with only one emotion.
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
Suspended FIFTY metres in the air, this is the last place that you would expect to find a fine dining experience .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
TOWERING 65 metres into the sky, this terrifying accent is a dream for climbers .
Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .