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.
Here's a collection of art for the DIGIT-AL age as these fascinating illusions of landmarks, places and even a banana are made using just a pair of hands .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .
