BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED. Crossing a 61 metre stretch, the brave adventurers leave their clothes behind and wear only a single safety rope secured tightly around their waists, ankles, and in some cases - even their private parts. These risqué photographs were taken by Philadelphia photographer Jared Alden, 31, after his love of traveling and adventure merged into his passion for photography. Captured at an unknown slacklining location in the remote Utah dessert, these photographs show thrill seekers getting their kit off for the ultimate slacklining experience at the GGBY highline festival.
ROLLING across a 65-metre-high viaduct in the Alps, the red carriages of the Bernina Express add a splash of colour to the spectacular snow-covered Swiss surroundings .
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
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 .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .