Meet the world's most lifelike Disney princess - a 21-year-old man from California. Richard Schaefer has transformed himself into an array of Disney princesses, including Snow White, Cinderella and Ariel, thanks to his naturally soft features and clever make-up tricks. The freelance make-up artist from Fullerton, Orange County, spends two hours on each transformation and wears his own home-made costumes. Richard attends comic conventions in character and wows fairytale fans, who are stunned when they discover the picture-perfect real life Disney princess is in fact a man.
The lighthouses of Brittany, from Brest to Le Conquet, stand tall on France’s north-western coast against stunning scenery .
FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
An elegant snowy owl spreads her wings and glides effortlessly above the snow covered field .
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A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .
