Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths. For Kiwi photographer Chris McLennan, 49,abseiled 300ft off one of the highest cave in the Southern Hemisphere into the unknown depths of a dark cavern and squeezed between limestone columns to capture this breath-taking image. The stunning photograph looks more like a scene from an epic movie than the work of a snapper. Located in beautiful Waitomo, New Zealand, they don’t call it The Lost World for nothing with its waterfalls, ancient whalebones, oyster fossils and magnificent glow-worms.
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
At first glance what might look like ordinary rusty bridge and road railings, are in fact amazing works of art .
Exibiting their superhuman strength these ants look ready to create an art attack by lifting pencils several thousand times their own weight .
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
A HEIGHT-addicted airline pilot has taken pictures of the Dubai from 1,300-feet .
ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .
From squids to Star Wars, these flipping marvellous creations are pancake portraits .
WITHOUT a care in the world, this little chimpanzee shows off her gymnastic skills as she swings around her enclosure .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
HEART-MELTING shots of a French bulldog and a ten-month-old French baby could be the cutest you’re likely to see .
A teacher has told how she was attacked by a murderer on her way home from a night out but courageously managed to charm him out of strangling her .