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.'
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .
CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
A British jewellery designer with a passion for London's iconic Gherkin has created a pen with an INK-REDIBLE price tag of £27,500 .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
Like a scene from a fairytale, THOUSANDS of fireflies create an enchanting glow as they dance in a forest .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .