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.
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
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A photographer has travelled the length of the UK capturing lighthouses and their picturesque surroundings .
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A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .