These are the fascinating pictures of miniature table sculptures molded around bonsai trees that take up to a painstaking 18 months to create. Japanese illustrator Takanori Aiba, 58, has built the intriguing scale models of windmills, lighthouses and even the Michelin Man.He delicately uses craft paper, plaster, acrylic resin, paint and plastic to create the host of sprawling miniature communities that wrap around the tiny trees.Following his work as an illustrator for Japanese fashion magazine POPYE he has spent the last nine years producing the detailed mini worlds.The creations take at least three months to construct with his Ice Cream Package Tower taking an astonishing 18 months work. Since 2003, he has made eight models, with 10 more planned over the next few years.
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
LIKE A living balloon this baitball of sardines is ready to burst when threatened by a pointy nosed sailfish .
COULD this be the most distastrous wedding cake fail EVER? Most brides opt for a traditional tiered white wedding cake decorated with delicate pink roses and lace for their big day .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
Here's a collection of art for the DIGIT-AL age as these fascinating illusions of landmarks, places and even a banana are made using just a pair of hands .
THIS is the fascinating abandoned house, complete with mystery portraits and homely items, that has been dubbed - crooked cottage .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
EXPERTLY camouflaged, this clever panther chameleon knows how to catch its prey by surprise .