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.
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
AIRPORT staff have been put on alert after diet pills that come in grenade shaped containers sparked security alerts .
A baby sperm whale assumed the role of a friendly giant when faced with two awestruck divers .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
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 .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .