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.
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs.
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SQUEEZING their furry faces through a hole in a tree, a trio of curious baby squirrels leave their nest for the first time to explore their surroundings.
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post.
This cheeky macaque gets up close and personal as he examines the dental hygiene of his fellow primate.
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea.
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue.
HEART-MELTING shots of a French bulldog and a ten-month-old French baby could be the cutest you’re likely to see.
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A floating market in Indonesia is bursting with vibrant colours as wooden rowing boats loaded with fruit and vegetables crowd the river.
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice.