These are the amazing close up pictures of North Korea's mass games - after photographers were previously banned from taking shots so close to the dazzling formation dances.They feature over 100,000 people in the performing art displays that include tens of thousands of gymnasts synchronizing movements in line with a background of card-turners who entertain spectators. About 20,000 of them form the background to the show holding large books whose pages flip simultaneously to produce the huge displays.The rapid change of images sees one card exchanged for another in a swift and synchronized movement that takes hours of rehearsals and detailed choreography.Photographer Werner Kranwetvogel, 40, captured the stunning shots after he gained rare access to the communist country's public displays.
SKIPPING on the spot, an adorable little owl embraces the 'running man' challenge .
A single woman, who was granted IVF funding on the NHS, finally has a baby after suffering three miscarriages .
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
A woman has lost over 13st after beating her addiction to POTATOES .
After Leigh Hancock, 36, joined Fallon Bramall's boxing gym she owned with her husband, the pair took him under their wing .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
A woman has told how she fled to Australia, after a one night stand burned down her house .
It’s the must-have for any true Disney fan: a Little Mermaid themed wedding .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
WELCOME to all that remains of Britain's once state-of-the-art military hospital where plastic surgery was pioneered for injured WW1 troops who survived the SOMME .
Throwing a right hook as he launches onto his opponent with his gnarling teeth at the ready, this is the OTTER-LY ruthless showdown between two otters .
A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .