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.
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .
TUGGING on the wing of his sibling, this needy owl is after some attention .
THESE kaleidoscopic-like photographs capture England’s churches and cathedrals in all their glory .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .
A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .
