A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach. Lying on the sand, the seal gazes down at her fluffy baby as it playfully wriggles around underneath her flipper. The heart-warming scene was captured by 46-year-old photographer Elmar Weiss on a beach in Heligoland, Germany. Elmar, of Hamburg, Germany says: "I have never seen such a loving bond between a seal and her baby before...
A curious red squirrel takes a break from collecting nuts and tries her hand at photography .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
A baby sperm whale assumed the role of a friendly giant when faced with two awestruck divers .
THESE are the Disney Princesses you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley .
Pic By Graham Gibson/ HotSpot Media - SHARK HYPNOTIST BALANCES SHARK IN PALM OF HIS HAND- In Pic - Diver Tom and Caribbean reef sharks in the Bahamas- A SHARK hypnotist balances these predators in the palm of his hand by sending them to sleep with a gentle nose rub .
EXPERTLY camouflaged, this clever panther chameleon knows how to catch its prey by surprise .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .