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.'
WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
With their guts spewing and eyes hanging out, these are the cuddly toys children might be reluctant to curl up to .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
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 .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .
FROM KISSING an alligator on the nose to walking over broken glass, this fearless daredevil is a real life female JACKASS .
LYING back in the snow, these two polar bears share a cuddle as they call time out on playtime .
A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .