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.'
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .
Scurrying along the branch of a tree, a little squirrel pushes a pram packed full of Easter treats .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
This was the chaotic scene when the driver of a 4x4 vehicle became periously trapped under his vehicle for an HOUR when it overturned after a crash on a busy motorway .
A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .