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.
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
HEART-MELTING shots of a French bulldog and a ten-month-old French baby could be the cutest you’re likely to see .
WEARING tiny Christmas accessories, these adorable babies get into the spirit of the season .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
THIS may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .
An intrepid explorer hopes to be reunited with his travel partner, after his cuddly toy companion was stolen .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
LEAPING for joy five-feet above the waves this baby whale cutie is saying HELLO to its family after being lost .
HIDDEN in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a secret oasis awaits intrepid travellers .