FROM ICE bubbles to boiling lava, these photographs highlight the stunning shapes and patterns found in nature. The series of extraordinary images were taken by German software engineer Thorsten Scheuermann after he decided to examine his surroundings. A trip to the city of Kalapana in Hawaii, home to the Kilauea Volcano, provided Thorsten with the setting for his lava picture, while a visit to the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon offered him the opportunity to photograph ice bubbles up-close. The 37-year-old, now of Washington, USA, said: 'These are sights that can gain greater significance and have their beauty exposed when excluding everything else around them.'
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 osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
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A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .
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A makeup artist from the West Midlands magically transforms herself into famous cartoon characters using body paint .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .