STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow. With his chin resting on his paws, the furry giant looks like he has a lot to think about in Wapusk National Park, located in northern Manitoba, Canada. These photographs were taken by 39-year-old professional photographer Alberto Ghizzi Panizza, while on a seven day trip to the park. At times Alberto, of Parma, Italy, was just three metres away from the polar bears.
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
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 .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
A BAMBI was dramatically caught in mid-air by a greedy Nile crocodile in a once-in-a-million flying pincer move .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
Hot on the heels of a little rabbit, this cheetah is on a mission to catch his prey .
TUGGING on the wing of his sibling, this needy owl is after some attention .
PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .
