From giant mountains to vast deserts, an American photographer spent a year capturing the diverse and beautiful landscape of the United States. The breath-taking images were taken by Randy P. Martin, 30, of Portland, Oregon, who travelled hundreds of miles across America and documented the most diverse and beautiful settings along the way. For Randy, the past year has seen him undertake countless road trips, navigate his route with maps made from napkins - with the help of Google Earth, walk miles across fields of lava rock and wake at 3am to see sunrise at 14,000 feet
DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .
SPURTING water 20ft into the air, this is one well you wouldn't want to dip your bucket into .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
She is about to start driving and soon will be able to legally buy alcohol and get married, but Poppy Webb-Jones still looks and thinks like a ten-year-old girl .
CRAZY BEARDS come into their GROWN when they've been twisted and waxed into shape .
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .
AN ITALIAN mechanic has created the world’s most ferocious mini-car .
Going for long rides through vast fields together, this twosome share an unbreakable bond .
On June 23, 2017, Coral Denakis, now 27, woke up on the morning of her wedding day to find a car on fire outside her hotel .
A woman with a rare condition that means she collapses every time she laughs fears she may have passed the rare illness onto her young son .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .