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.
STOLEN £2K BULLDOG REUNITED WITH FAMILY VIA TWITTER - A £2,000 bulldog puppy snatched from her home by burglars has been reunited with her family thanks to Twitter .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
DINING under the stars, this restaurant takes you back in time - inside an ancient cave .
SPURTING water 20ft into the air, this is one well you wouldn't want to dip your bucket into .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .
HIDDEN in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a secret oasis awaits intrepid travellers .
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 .