RACING through the mountain range on horseback, the Kazakh people practice their ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles. Soaring through the air at 200mph, the eagles race to reach their keeper, in order to win first place in an annual festival, which celebrates the heritage of the Kazakh people. The Golden Eagle festival is held every October in Bayan-Olgii, a province in western Mongolia. Belgian photographer and software developer Stefan Cruysberghs captured the photographs when he travelled to the region to witness the occasion first-hand.
Like a scene from a fairytale, THOUSANDS of fireflies create an enchanting glow as they dance in a forest .
SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .
SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .
This may look like a monster car engine that will leave petrol heads in a spin, but it is in fact a rather snazzy looking COFFEE MACHINE .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .