WITH A wide smile plastered across his face, this little gecko is ready for his close up. The smiley tokay gecko was photographed by photographer Angi Wallace in her home in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The 47-year-old says: “I placed this gecko on a branch deliberately to take some photographs. “He has the cutest face, however if I wave my hand near him he opens his mouth as a form of defensive behaviour.
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
FROM the rolling hills of the Scottish highlands to looming chalk cliffs in Sussex, these stunning photographs capture the spectacular beauty of Great Britain .
NATURE PAPARAZZIS prove you don't have to be Justin Bieber or Cheryl Cole to attract a pack of photographers .
A little caterpillar fearlessly scampers down a branch and confronts a praying mantis .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
A BRITISH couple are the first to tie the knot inside an enormous GLACIER in Iceland .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
Full of tired and busy commuters, these underground stations are rarely admired for their architecture or beauty .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .