Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths. For Kiwi photographer Chris McLennan, 49,abseiled 300ft off one of the highest cave in the Southern Hemisphere into the unknown depths of a dark cavern and squeezed between limestone columns to capture this breath-taking image. The stunning photograph looks more like a scene from an epic movie than the work of a snapper. Located in beautiful Waitomo, New Zealand, they don’t call it The Lost World for nothing with its waterfalls, ancient whalebones, oyster fossils and magnificent glow-worms.
DIPPING his head into the vase of water, this little squirrel takes a refreshing break from an afternoon of eating .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .
These are the faces of orphans suffering from the horrifying effects of chemical warfare .
An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .
As sunlight cascades through its vibrant stained glass windows, every inch of the Nasir-ol-Mulk Mosque bursts with colour .
At first glance what might look like ordinary rusty bridge and road railings, are in fact amazing works of art .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .