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.
A Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book .
With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .