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.
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
SAILING over crystal clear waters, the Bajau people of Malaysia live their lives almost entirely at SEA .
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .
These are the men with one of the most unpleasant jobs in the world .
