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.
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
LEAPING for joy five-feet above the waves this baby whale cutie is saying HELLO to its family after being lost .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
A pair of snarling foxes go paw-to-paw and brawl after unexpectedly crossing paths .
LUMINOUS green rocks could easily be a beach from Superman's homeland of Krypton .
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
