These are the fascinating pictures of miniature table sculptures molded around bonsai trees that take up to a painstaking 18 months to create. Japanese illustrator Takanori Aiba, 58, has built the intriguing scale models of windmills, lighthouses and even the Michelin Man.He delicately uses craft paper, plaster, acrylic resin, paint and plastic to create the host of sprawling miniature communities that wrap around the tiny trees.Following his work as an illustrator for Japanese fashion magazine POPYE he has spent the last nine years producing the detailed mini worlds.The creations take at least three months to construct with his Ice Cream Package Tower taking an astonishing 18 months work. Since 2003, he has made eight models, with 10 more planned over the next few years.
This is the moment a puffin delved into the ocean and bit off more than he could chew to collect a beak full of fish .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
An adorable young fallow deer peers over its shoulder and is greeted by a cheeky jackdaw crow sitting on its back .
A woman has been left scarred for life after a botched eye lift burnt her eyelids .
A woman whose face and body was left scarred for life by angry sores, caused by Lupus, has become a diversity model .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
A deranged dad beat his girlfriend so savagely in a vicious 30 minute attack that the indent of his sovereign ring was left on her face .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
A group of shelter dogs showcase their loveable personalities in a series of passport-style photographs - in the hope of finding their forever homes .