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.
A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
A tiny puppy who lost his front legs after being hit by a train has been given and new LEASH of life with a set of wheels .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .
HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
THIS is the awesome moment an Osprey catches its prey travelling at 50mph, giving new meaning to FAST FOOD .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .