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.
WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
SHOVELLING food into his mouth, this hungry gorilla enjoys a peaceful moment at dinner time .
A TAXIDERMY truck spotted in America’s Deep South could be the most gruesome wagon on the road .
THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .