An intrepid photographer travelled to the abandoned ghost town of Bodie in northern California to capture the historic buildings that are trapped in time. The eerie mining town located in Bodie Hills in Mono County, east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, sits alone in the desert, 75 miles south east of Lake Tahoe. Professional photographer Julien McRoberts, 50, photographed several of the 170 buildings within Bodie, including the once heaving church, saloon and general store. Bodie was a gold mining camp in 1859 and by 1880 it had become a bustling town with a population of 2,700. It wasn’t until 1910 that the town was in decline, as gold miners moved out of Bodie and onto more promising land.
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
WITH A wide smile plastered across his face, this little gecko is ready for his close up .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
RACING down the slopes in her tiny ski gear, this TWO-YEAR-OLD girl has already mastered the art of skiing .
PEACE and love filled the 1980’s Glastonbury fields as relaxed festival goers kicked back and soaked up the atmosphere .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .