HIDING behind its flipper, this little seal comes over a little camera shy. After a day of relaxing on the beach, the adorable grey seal pup spots the camera and covers its face with a furry flipper to avoid being papped. The seal was photographed by Italian aerospace engineer Guido Muratore on a trip to Donna Nook, located on the coast of Lincolnshire. Spending three days photographing the seals, Guido was just six metres away from the happy creatures.
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
RESTING his weary head on his flipper, this little seal pup takes a much needed nap after an afternoon of strenuous yoga .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .
VIBRANT bursts of colour fill the screen as beautiful flowers blossom in these time-lapse videos .