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.
PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
SPLASHING around in a paddling pool, this little elephant soaks up the sunshine .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
A small Indian monkey is seemingly gob-smacked after reading the latest stock market news .
LUMINOUS green rocks could easily be a beach from Superman's homeland of Krypton .
The rock restaurant, located in Zanzibar – THIS unique restaurant really does boast breath-taking views - as it is perched on a rock in the middle of the sea .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
THIS may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .