Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg. Sailing in the middle of a freshwater lake, the fishermen keep both hands free by perching on one leg and wrapping the other leg around the boat’s oar. Photographer David Lazar visited Inle Lake in the Taunggyi District of Shan State, Myanmar, also known as Burma, where the distinctive fishermen are a regular fixture.
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
PAWS for thought as you feast your eyes on this rare bear bathing session .
A NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
Throwing a right hook as he launches onto his opponent with his gnarling teeth at the ready, this is the OTTER-LY ruthless showdown between two otters .
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .