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.
With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .
This is the amazing moment two white-tailed kites take an in-flight meal - exchanging prey at 100 foot high in mid air .
THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
An intrepid explorer hopes to be reunited with his travel partner, after his cuddly toy companion was stolen .
An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .