COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society. Known as sadhus, they shun all home comforts for a life spent inside caves, forests and temples and can be found across India and Nepal. German banker and photographer Mario Gerth decided to find and photograph the sadhu people. The 38-year-old of Erfurt, Germany, says: “I have been obsessed with the sadhus for many years and set off in 2013 to look for them.
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 .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .
WRAPPED up in classy headscarves, these adorable pooches are the picture of sophistication .
LEAPING for joy five-feet above the waves this baby whale cutie is saying HELLO to its family after being lost .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
A pair of BEAUTIFUL rescue sea turtles spot their catch in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef .