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.
PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .
IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .
Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
LEAF-ing much to the imagination, this camera trickery is blooming marvellous .
A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .