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.
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
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Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
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A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
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