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.
WONDERS of the world have been transformed into their mini-versions in a seven-year round the world adventure .
It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
CAUSING a splash, this determined kingfisher goes hunting for dinner .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .