PATTERNS of colourful swirls and twirls of smoke help to create these imaginative spellbinding photographs. The hypnotic and psychedelic images were created by American psychologist Mark Scalco, 49, who refers to his work as 'smokreations'. 'I've always enjoyed the patterns made by kaleidoscopes or some geometric screen-savers,' says Mark, of Durham, North Carolina. 'I remember as a kid looking for shapes in clouds and smoke.
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
Suspended FIFTY metres in the air, this is the last place that you would expect to find a fine dining experience .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
A SHOCKING cartoon of a black man carrying bags saying‘’zippadydoohdah zip-up immigrant bags’ has appeared in a shop window and is being investigated by police .
LEAPING through the air this determined little mouse is on a mission for food .
When couples talk about wanting a white wedding, few will be referring to getting hitched on a glacier sat on top of an active volcano .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .