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.
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
BLOWING bubbles underwater, this adorable polar bear slides into his tank for a playful dip .
FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .
A couple have tied the knot in a spectacular Harry Potter-themed wedding which cost £45,000 .
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
THIS is the incredible moment a pelican throws a fish into the air and SLAM DUNKS it into its enormous throat sack .
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 .