From squids to Star Wars, these flipping marvellous creations are pancake portraits. The delicious designs are the work of Nathan Shields, of Port Angeles, Washington. The 34 year old illustrator started making pancakes with fun themes as a way to entertain his children, Gryphon, 6, and Alice, 3. Nathan, a former maths teacher, says: 'I found myself in charge of our young children, with a lot of free time.
DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .
Peering curiously into a basket hanging off the arms of a snowman, this little squirrel appears fascinated by the snowy figure .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
A little girl who lost all four limbs to meningitis has taken her first steps since the illness thanks to her new 'Princess legs' .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
SPURTING water 20ft into the air, this is one well you wouldn't want to dip your bucket into .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
The mother of a young woman stabbed 26 times by her ex-partner for having a secret abortion has told how her daughter was cruelly betrayed by her own social worker .
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .