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.
LIKE A living balloon this baitball of sardines is ready to burst when threatened by a pointy nosed sailfish .
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 .
TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .
A 20st mum-of-four who was dangerously obese has lost half her body weight after her son drew her as a BLOB at school .
Blonde teen Jess Stubbs has certainly got girl power - as Britain’s youngest TRUCKER .
She was recently named Best Dressed Woman in a new list and is regarded as one of the most stylish women in the world .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
SAT with his arms folded and a cross look on his face, this Gorilla looks like he's had enough of the Christmas holidays already .
RECORD BREAKING GRAN'S COLLECTION OF NEARLY 800 SHEEP HOTSPOT MEDIA – WITH PICS 0121 551 1004 By Katie Thompson A record-breaking baa-rmy gran with a love for sheep has amassed a collection of nearly 800 woolly wonders .
Meet mother of four, Jackie Wright, whose bizarre fear means she is terrified of HOLES .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
Meet the world's most lifelike Disney princess - a 21-year-old man from California .