A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy. Alessio Andreani, of London, travelled to several spectacular settings, including Durdle Door in Dorset, England and South Stack lighthouse in Holyhead, Wales, where he photographed the Milky Way as it illuminated the scenery below. The 27-year-old, who is originally from Loreto, Italy, says: "When I take photographs of the Milky Way and stare up at all those stars, it reminds me of just how tiny I am......
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .
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 .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
LEAPING for joy five-feet above the waves this baby whale cutie is saying HELLO to its family after being lost .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
From vibrant blues to dazzling oranges, these eye catching hummingbirds proudly show off their impressive colours .
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
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 .