HOTSPOT MEDIA - BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH AR' KID: A POSTAL SORTER has perfected the art of time travel by delivering images that are from the past. Step into Neil Pearson's photographs and you can see what the north looked like then and what it looks like now. The 46-year-old recreated old pictures around his home city of Salford and blended the old and the new together with some photoshop wizardry. ... (Pic by Neil Pearson / HotSpot Media) 0121 551 1004
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
DASHING through the snow, this little stoat is on the lookout for a Christmas feast .
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
A mining town in Australia’s outback appears to be completely deserted, but its residents have escaped the scorching heat by living in underground caves .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
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 .