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.
WITH A wide smile plastered across his face, this little gecko is ready for his close up .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
A small Indian monkey is seemingly gob-smacked after reading the latest stock market news .
Suspended FIFTY metres in the air, this is the last place that you would expect to find a fine dining experience .
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 .
With their guts spewing and eyes hanging out, these are the cuddly toys children might be reluctant to curl up to .
A dog was SOW close to death after she dangerously swallowed a two-inch NEEDLE-Cute Shih Tzu Daisy could have pierced her intestines after eating the long needle and thread after finding it on the carpet .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .