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.
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
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 .
FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
THIS unique holiday accommodation allows you to enjoy a full Flintstones experience .
These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .
