A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it. Pictured under the winter sun, the bubbles glow as sunlight bounces off their surface. Photographer Hope Thurston Carter captured the images after blowing the soap bubbles on several freezing days in Michigan. The 52-year-old, of Martin, Michigan, says: 'I got the idea to blow bubbles outside in the winter after I saw several similar photos on the internet.
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .
HEART-MELTING shots of a French bulldog and a ten-month-old French baby could be the cutest you’re likely to see .
AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
Megan Brailsford, 32, from Cambridgeshire, met Daniel Dugdale, 29, in September 2020 .
A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
SPLASHING around in a paddling pool, this little elephant soaks up the sunshine .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .