An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert. Surrounded by vast desert and distant snow topped mountains, the enormous satellite dishes, dome-shaped buildings and telescopes are run by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) , an intergovernmental body dedicated to observing space. Photographer Alberto Ghizzi Panizza was granted access to several observatory sites.
A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
THESE are the Disney Princesses you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley .
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
A TAXIDERMY truck spotted in America’s Deep South could be the most gruesome wagon on the road .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
SQUABBLING over the last piece of grain, these hungry squirrels are determined to stock up on as much food as possible .
PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .