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.
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
LIKE A living balloon this baitball of sardines is ready to burst when threatened by a pointy nosed sailfish .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
