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.
FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .
These beautiful photographs show how these playful pods of dolphins make their own fun by gliding, flipping and spinning through the air whilst enjoying the sun on their backs .
These adorable pictures show the moment two cuddly red panda cubs take their first look at the outside world and are weighed for the very first time .
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THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .
A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
