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.
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
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A Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .
An elegant snowy owl spreads her wings and glides effortlessly above the snow covered field .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
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 .
WRAPPED up in classy headscarves, these adorable pooches are the picture of sophistication .
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SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .