The 27th annual Burning Man — a crazy, weeklong festival in the Black Rock Desert of northern Nevada — is well underway.

In honor of the Labor Day weekend festival, a new book "Burning Man: Art of Fire" details the elaborate art structures displayed throughout the past years of the event.

The book, by author Jennifer Raiser with photography by Scott London and Sidney Erthal, is the only authorized collection of the best of Burning Man art with incredible photography.

The book contains more than 200 striking photos and interviews with the artists about their inspiration and how they transport such large structures to the middle of the desert.

With permission from Race Point Publishing, we have 12 of the stunning images here.

Every August, over 50,000 people gather to celebrate artistic expression and social freedom in Nevada's barren Black Rock Desert. In extreme elements, over 200 works of art are created and intended to delight, provoke, involve, or amaze.

New book "Burning Man: Art of Fire" details the many art pieces in the desert, like this piece titled "Evolution Man," which was made entirely of irregularly shaped wooden triangles intended to represent the chaos at the heart of life.

There is ritual surrounding every aspect of the Man’s creation and destruction. He is traditionally 40 feet tall, standing on a tall wooden base that participants can enter and climb. The blueprints for his construction are a closely guarded secret, provided only to the carefully selected crew, largely volunteers, who gather at Burning Man’s Nevada work ranch in June for the process of carefully cutting, assembling, joining, and sanding of the Man with a level of craftsmanship befitting an antique piece of fine furniture.

(Photo: Courtesy Race Point Publishing/Sidney Erthal and Scott London Photography)

Artist Marco Cochrane's "Truth is Beauty" 2013 structure of the female body was held up with steel and mesh.

Cochrane credits the open-minded culture of Burning Man for inspiring the sculptures. He says: “I’m trying to demystify nudity. I see how free women are on the playa, how they can possess a playful energy here that they cannot do in real life.”

(Photo: Courtesy Race Point Publishing/Sidney Erthal and Scott London Photography)

The 27th annual Burning Man — a crazy, weeklong festival in the Black Rock Desert of northern Nevada — is well underway.

In honor of the Labor Day weekend festival, a new book "Burning Man: Art of Fire" details the elaborate art structures displayed throughout the past years of the event.

The book, by author Jennifer Raiser with photography by Scott London and Sidney Erthal, is the only authorized collection of the best of Burning Man art with incredible photography.

The book contains more than 200 striking photos and interviews with the artists about their inspiration and how they transport such large structures to the middle of the desert.

With permission from Race Point Publishing, we have 12 of the stunning images here.

Every August, over 50,000 people gather to celebrate artistic expression and social freedom in Nevada's barren Black Rock Desert. In extreme elements, over 200 works of art are created and intended to delight, provoke, involve, or amaze.

New book "Burning Man: Art of Fire" details the many art pieces in the desert, like this piece titled "Evolution Man," which was made entirely of irregularly shaped wooden triangles intended to represent the chaos at the heart of life.

There is ritual surrounding every aspect of the Man’s creation and destruction. He is traditionally 40 feet tall, standing on a tall wooden base that participants can enter and climb. The blueprints for his construction are a closely guarded secret, provided only to the carefully selected crew, largely volunteers, who gather at Burning Man’s Nevada work ranch in June for the process of carefully cutting, assembling, joining, and sanding of the Man with a level of craftsmanship befitting an antique piece of fine furniture.

(Photo: Courtesy Race Point Publishing/Sidney Erthal and Scott London Photography)

Artist Marco Cochrane's "Truth is Beauty" 2013 structure of the female body was held up with steel and mesh.

Cochrane credits the open-minded culture of Burning Man for inspiring the sculptures. He says: “I’m trying to demystify nudity. I see how free women are on the playa, how they can possess a playful energy here that they cannot do in real life.”

(Photo: Courtesy Race Point Publishing/Sidney Erthal and Scott London Photography)

Lobster boat captain Craig Stewart and sternman Tim Lovett start work before sunrise and haul traps for hours on end.

Making a living is harder now than ever before, as overhead costs for fuel, equipment, and bait steadily climb, while unprecedented lobster landings over the last several years have sent prices tumbling.

"We're struggling," said Stewart, a third-generation lobsterman who fishes off the coast of Portland."If I come in with 600 pounds, people will see that I made $1000 for that day. They don't see that I just replaced the engine for $30,000 or that I paid over $300 for bait."

Stewart is one of Maine's 5,900 licensed lobster harvesters, who together haul in roughly 80% of U.S. landings of American lobster, worth more than $300 million.

To experience the life of a Maine lobsterman last summer we headed to Portland, Maine and spent a day aboard Stewart's 36-foot working lobster boat.

Around 4:30 a.m., sternman Tim Lovett leaves Holyoke Wharf in South Portland to pick up captain Craig Stewart from Long Island in Casco Bay, near Portland.

By 6 a.m., Craig is at the helm. He begins zigzagging in and out of buoys to locate his traps.

Each lobster boat is limited to 800 traps as part of Maine law. A portion of the traps are hauled and set each day.

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Known as "The Medicine Hunter," Chris Kilham travels the world looking for plants that can be used as medicinal remedies. Throughout his travels, he has come upon what are known as "hot plants," many of which have been proven to stimulate sexual function.

"Hot plants" grow all over the world, particularly in exotic locales like Malaysia and the Amazon Rainforest.

He tells us about the benefits of some of his favorite natural aphrodisiacs. No prescription required.

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For decades, there's been a widespread misunderstanding of monosodium glutamate — aka, MSG. We debunk the long-running myth that MSG is bad for you.

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Aug. 31 marks the 17th anniversary of the car crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales and the "Queen of People's Hearts."

The year of her death, 1997, was highlighted by trips to Angola and Bosnia in her high-profile campaign against land mines, and Mediterranean holidays with her sons and companion, Emad Mohamed al-Fayed.

Seventeen years after her death, Princess Diana is remembered for her compassion and commitment to her causes. These photos display her endless supply of charm and generosity.

Lady Diana Spencer as a toddler on the Norfolk, England property where she grew up. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her father, an earl, won custody.

Riding in style at the Park House in 1962. Her family rented the property, owned by Queen Elizabeth II, and arranged occasional playdates with Prince Albert and Prince Edward when Diana was young.

She kept a Shetland pony, named Souffle, at her mother's Scotland home.

Tokyo (AFP) - A group of Japanese porn actresses raised tens of thousands of dollars at the weekend by having their breasts squeezed by fans at a "Boob Aid" charity event for AIDS prevention.

The nine adult movie stars, sporting yellow campaign T-shirts rolled up to reveal their breasts, flashed a big smile as punters came to them at an event that opened Saturday.

Having sprayed their hands with disinfectant, many of them were seen fondling the breasts quite discreetly.

A man was seen pressing his palms together in the style of a Buddhist prayer before and after he softly touched the breasts of each of the nine girls.

Women were occasionally spotted in the mostly male crowd, prompting one of the girls to say in rapture: "Wow, I'm happy. I want her to touch my breasts!"

Boob Aid is part of the 24-hour "Stop! AIDS" campaign event in Tokyo, which was also televised live on a Japanese adult cable channel.

The breast-squeezing resumed Sunday morning after an overnight break. 

More than 2,300 pairs of hands groped for a total of eight hours until early Sunday afternoon, organisers said.

The figure suggests some $23,000 has already been collected as each participant was expected to donate 1,000 yen (about $10) or more.

The final money count will be announced after the event closes at around 8pm (1100 GMT) on Sunday. 

The event is the 12th since its launch in 2003. It is backed by the Japan Foundation for AIDS Prevention.

"I'm really looking forward to lots of people fondling my boobs," Rina Serina told the Tokyo Sports newspaper before the event. "But I would be very happy if you would please be delicate."

The event comes after sexist heckling of a Tokyo assemblywoman hit the headlines, highlighting old-fashioned views towards women that still permeate Japanese society.

"I never thought my boobs could contribute to society," added the ponytailed Serina, apparently unaware of any contradiction.

Fellow porn actress Iku Sakuragi had no qualms about being groped by hundreds of pairs of hands.

"It's for charity," said the 21-year-old. "Squeeze them, donate money -- let's be happy."

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Summer isn't over yet, but Labor Day weekend is still for many people the last hurrah for barbecues, beaches, and nights outside. That also makes it prime time for mosquitoes who see this as open season to dine on humans.

If you can't spend a summer afternoon outside without slapping your ankles — and you still end up with dozens of mosquito bites — then it might be true that the flying pests really do love you.

And those lucky people who say they don't get bitten? They exist too.

But it's not because one person's blood tastes better to the small hovering bloodsuckers — or at least, not just that. In a TED 2014 talk earlier this year in Vancouver, microbial ecologist Rob Knight explained that the bacteria, or microbes, on skin produce different chemicals, some of which smell more attractive to mosquitoes.

The trillion or so microbes that live on skin are a small percentage of the 100 trillion bacteria that live on and inside the body, but they play a huge role in body odor. Without those bacteria, human sweat wouldn't smell like anything.

However, those different bacteria vary greatly from person to person. Knight explained that while we share 99.9% of DNA with other humans, most people only share about 10% of their microbes.

A siren song for mosquitoes

To demonstrate that mosquitoes are overwhelmingly attracted to certain types of skin microbes, researchers asked 48 adult male volunteers to refrain from alcohol, garlic, spicy food, and showers for two days. The men wore nylon socks for 24 hours to build up a collection of their unique skin microbes.

Researchers then used glass beads that they had rubbed against the underside of the men's feet to pick up their scent as mosquito bait.

Nine men out of the 48 proved to be especially attractive to mosquitoes, while the scents of seven lucky volunteers were largely ignored. The "highly attractive" group had 2.62 times as high a concentration of one common skin microbe, and 3.11 times higher concentration of another common microbe, compared to the "poorly attractive group." That poorly attractive group had a more diverse bacterial colony on their skin as a whole.

Researchers say that it's possible that some people's smell acts a natural deterrent.

But there's an equalizer for those that naturally draw swarms of mosquitoes. The same pests are attracted to beer drinkers.

The study was published in the journal PLOS ONE.

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We all need to get from point A to point B. Some just do it in better style — mainly because they have millions or billions of dollars from their innovative startups.

We all know these tech moguls can be humble, but we thought it'd be fun to round up what tech cofounders and CEOs are driving these days, which range from extremely modest to ridiculously expensive.

Some of the wealthiest living in Silicon Valley own flashy $100,000 sports cars, while others are totally happy cruising around in everyday roadsters.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly owns several cars including an Acura TSX and a Volkswagen Golf GTI, but Zuckerberg reportedly put money down on a Pagani Huayra. The Italian hypercar starts at a modest $1.3 million.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos still drives his 1996 Honda Accord. That model today costs around $4,000.

Snapchat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel enjoyed several luxury cars growing up, but after a Series B funding round last June, Spiegel immediately bought himself a Ferrari. Ferraris range from $188,000 to $400,000 and up.

Mexican food is regionally diverse and flavorful, with origins dating back to the Aztec Empire.

Yet Americans are more likely to mention Chipotle and Taco Bell when they think of “Mexican” cuisine.

Many of the so-called Mexican foods we love — like hardshell tacos, burritos, and nachos — are Tex-Mex inventions. Though they have their own interesting history (and are obviously tasty), calling them Mexican is as accurate as saying General Tsao's chicken is Chinese.

Here are nine real Mexican dishes you should try instead of the American knock-offs.

Instead of hardshell tacos, make soft-shell tacos:

The hardshell tacos we make in the U.S. have spiced-beef, shopped tomatoes, iceberg lettuce, and “Mexican” cheese — but these are purely an American invention.

Mexican tacos are small and soft, and the tortillas are either lightly grilled or streamed. A taco can be made with a variety of meat, including beef, pork, chicken, or seafood.

Vegetables like avocados, home-made salsa, and chopped onions are added, and garnished with fresh lime juice and cilantro. If cheese is used, it won’t be the shredded “Mexican” cheese commonly found at U.S. grocery stores, but fresh white cheese.

And don't add a dollop of sour cream on top. Instead, try crema, which is less sour and runnier than sour cream (similar to authentic French crème fraîche). 

Instead of a burrito, order tacos de harina (wheat flour tacos):

The burrito as we know it today is an obese foodstuff, stretched to its limits with rice, veggies, beans, cheese, sour cream, and almost anything else we can imagine.

But America's burrito is not authentic. Tacos de harina (wheat flour tacos), which hail from provinces in southern Mexico, are much thinner and smaller than the American version, and usually only include two or three ingredients such as a meat or seafood base with rice, beans, white cheese, or chiles. 

Instead of buying “Mexican” cheese, try an authentic Mexican white cheese:

The “Mexican" cheese that you see in grocery stores are what most Americans use to top their tacos and nachos. But it could not be more different from the white, nuanced, tangy cheeses of Mexico that help balance the heat of the peppers. 

There are many types of authentic Mexican white cheese, each with its own unique flavor profile. They include queso blanco, queso Oaxaca, queso panela, añejo, chihuahua, cotija, and many others, and range in taste from mild to strong-flavored and aged.

Just as string cheese is different from Monterey Jack, so too is queso de Oaxaca (the “mozzarella of Mexico”) different from añejo.

Instead of nachos, order chilaquiles (Mexican breakfast nachos):

Though nachos are technically a Mexican dish in the sense that they come Mexico, they don’t really count since they were invented for the American wives of U.S. soldiers stationed at Fort Duncan. The dish soon became a Tex-Mex staple.

If you want a more traditional Mexican dish, try chilaquiles. They are made with quartered corn tortillas that are lightly fried and simmered with salsa (green, red or mole), and then topped with eggs (scrambled or fried) and sometimes pulled chicken.

Add some queso fresco and crema, and serve with refried beans. Though this is a morning dish, who cares? — it’s delicious.

Instead of buying jars of salsa, make your own pico de gallo:

The store-bought, jarred salsa we all eat with Tostitos chips pales in comparison to spicy, fresh, and flavorful Mexican salsas.

The most common Mexican salsas are salsa roja, salsa verde, and pico de gallo. Though all three are fantastic, we recommend trying pico de gallo — it’s a raw, salad-like tomato salsa with diced and chopped vegetables mixed with cilantro that will be the biggest change from your prepackaged salsa.

Instead of fajitas, try cochinita pibil (slow-roasted pork):

That sizzling plate of fajitas is another American invention. Fajita basically means “little strip,” referring to the pieces of chicken or beef that arrive on the hot skillet to your table.

According to the Oxord English dictionary, the word didn’t even appear in print until 1971, and probably dates back to the food ranch hands were served during the 1930s in South and West Texas. 

If you’re craving a meat-rich dish, try cochinita pibil instead. It's a traditional Mexican slow-roasted pork dish that involves marinating the meat in citrus juice, coloring it with annatto seed, and roasting it while it’s wrapped in a a banana leaf.

Just like fajitas, cochinita pibil is then eaten with corn tortillas and sides like pickled red onion, refried black beans, and habanero chiles. 

Instead of Tex-Mex enchiladas, make some easy Mexican enchiladas:

The Tex-Mex enchiladas that most Americans are familiar with are tortillas wrapped around ground beef and cheese, and doused with enchilada sauce or gravy. These are then topped with even more cheese and baked in an oven.

Mexican enchiladas vary widely, but are typically tortillas that have been fried and dipped in spicy enchilada sauce and then rolled up with a small amount of meat, vegetables, and/or cheese. These are then garnished lightly with white cheese and served immediately.

Though both versions are admittedly delicious, it’s very easy to make your own authentic Mexican enchiladas at home.

Instead of chili con queso, order queso flameado (cheese fondue with meat sauce):

Chili con queso is yet another Tex-Mex invention with processed cheese, garlic, cumin, onion, and chopped jalapeños.

It’s likely a descend ent of the native dish in El Paso, queso flameado. It’s basically a cheese fondue with a meat sauce and chorizo, tomato, onion, chile, and spices.

Queso flameado is flambé, which means that liquor (rum, brandy, or tequila) is poured on the cheese and ignited. The server then folds in the meat sauce as the dish burns, and you eat it by spooning the queso flameado onto small tortillas for individual servings

Instead of eating churros for dessert, try paletas:

Churros are actually descended from an ancient Chinese salty dish called youtiao. The Portuguese took it and introduced it to Europeans, who promptly replaced the salt with sugar. Eventually, the Spaniards introduced the churro to Mexico during the Conquistador era. 

A more authentically Mexican dessert is a paleta, or Latin American ice pop made with fresh fruits and usually sold at kiosks and carts. They’re basically fresher and healthier popsicles with fruit inside, and are the perfect way to end your meal.

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Sibling entrepreneurs Alli Webb and Michael Landau say they owe much of their small business' enormous success to the three-word motto they've embraced since day one: "We are family."

In 2009, the brother-sister duo cofounded Drybar, a chic chain of hair salons that offers blowouts ("no cuts, no color, just blowouts") for $40 a pop.  

Since its inception, they've opened 37 locations and hired over 2,200 employees — including Webb's husband, Cameron, who serves as the company's creative director, and Landau's wife, Sarah, Drybar's Spirit Director, recruiter, and "mother figure."

But Webb, Landau, and their spouses aren't the only family members in the business.

They consider each and every one of their 2,200 staffers family — and they strongly believe this mentality has helped them achieve so much of their success.

Webb and Landau say infusing the "we are family" motto into everything they do, and including it as an official company core value ("We are family. Drybar was started by family. You are part of our family."), has allowed the company to stand out from conventional salons where stylists clock in and clock out and "don't feel like they're part of something bigger." 

"In most salons, stylists rent a chair, come in, do their work, and go home," Landau tells Business Insider. "At Drybar, we do things differently. And because we've created a 'family environment,' and everyone is reminded over and over again that 'we are all family,' our employees are excited to come in to work. They are passionate about the brand, the products, and what they're doing. And this helps them create a wonderful experience for our clients — which makes them want to come back again and again."

Webb and Landau say they recognized the importance and power of the "family environment" — and the "we are family" motto — early on.

When they first started hiring in 2009 they placed job ads on Craigslist and conducted interviews in Webb's Los Angeles home.

"During interviews, I would have stylists 'audition' in my living room," Webb explains. "They would blow out my hair, and I would see how they did and whether they could hold a conversation."

But she quickly learned that the best stylists weren't the ones with the strongest technical skills. They were the ones who wanted to be part of the Drybar family; those who truly embrace that core value.

"Now we always make it clear in the interview process that working at Drybar is like joining a family. If the person isn't interested in being part of an environment like that, we know it won't work out," she says. "Many stylists don't come from that type of environment, so some try it, thinking they'll like it, and later decide they don't. Those stylists ultimately don't work out for us."

To figure out whether an individual would be a good fit for Drybar, Webb says the company's hiring managers typically ask questions that have nothing to do with skillsets. "Instead, we try to learn about who they are and what they value most. That helps us determine whether they'd thrive in a family-like environment."

And when the employees thrive, everyone wins. 

"The 'we are family' motto really works for us, our employees, and our customers," Landau says. But as Drybar continues to grow, maintaining the "feel of a small, family company" may prove challenging.

"As we get more corporate, we don't want to feel more corporate," he says. "We always want to have that family atmosphere and vibe we all enjoy today."

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Summer may be the season to relax with a beach read, but autumn is high time for new blockbuster novels.

Amazon editors broke down the 20 most anticipated books of fall 2014.

From household author names like George R. R. Martin and Jodi Picoult to famous faces like Amy Poehler and Neil Patrick Harris, these are the 20 books everyone should pick up this fall.

They are listed here in order of release date.

"The Long Way Home" by Louise Penny

When we last saw Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, he had retired to a small town in Canada. And that's where readers will find him in "The Long Way Home" — that is, until his neighbor Clara begs the ex-homicide detective to come out of retirement and find her missing husband. 

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"Personal" by Lee Child

Retired military cop Jack Reacher is back in "Personal," this time working for the State Department and the CIA after the French President is assassinated. Teamed with CIA analyst Casey Nice, together they must stop the assassin before he murders another world leader at an upcoming G-8 summit.

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"Edge of Eternity" by Ken Follett

The much-anticipated finale to "The Century Trilogy," Follett's readers once again delve into the realm of historical fiction, this time in the 1960s through the '80s. American, German, English, Russian, and Welsh characters all struggle with Civil Rights, the Cold War, and world politics in this gripping, truly epic novel.

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Jane Fonda is selling her very, very large Santa Fe ranch for $19.5 million.

The actress' 'Forked Lightening Ranch' includes 2,300-deeded acres with over three miles of The Pecos River (one of the "finest trout fisheries in the state") Rocky Mountain terrain, and American ruins.

Meanwhile, the 9,585-square-foot home itself, which is referred to as 'River House,' was personally designed by the former aerobics queen with six beds, five baths, a galleria, and a bell tower.

Fonda incorporated the modern Spanish colonial style home with energy-efficient resources, while still making it look like it's over 100 years old, according to the actress in a promotional video.

The ranch bordered by the Santa Fe National Forest and is located within 25 minutes of the city of Santa Fe and is being listed by Swan Land Company. 

Welcome to Forked Lightening Ranch, aka the 2,300-acre customized ranch of celebrity activist Jane Fonda.

The property includes 3.5 private miles of the Pecos River, allowing for plenty of fly fishing for rainbow and brown trout.

The river is surrounded by sedimentary-rock formations, Rocky Mountain wildlife, and stone cliffs.

Last year, I went to Burning Man for the first time.

Despite having attended many different festivalspreviously, Burning Man was unlike anything I have ever seen.

Burning Man, as the website proclaims, is "an annual art event and temporary community based on radical self expression and self-reliance in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada."

Last year, over 61,000 people attended, many of them in the tech industry.

While most people go for the full seven days, I only did four, so my experience may have been different from others. But the beauty of Burning Man is that everyone can have whatever kind of experience they want.

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For me, I loved biking around during the hot desert days looking at all of the beautiful art installations constructed in the middle of nowhere and taking advantage of strangers' generosity by way of wine tastings, zip lines and fried chicken.

For others, the festival comes alive at night. As the sun goes down, the lights of Black Rock City come up and the pulse of the music keeps people awake until well into the following day.

Since most people who haven't been to Burning Man seem to be confused by what it actually is, here are some photos that sum up my trip last year.

It all started with this: a cheap, leopard suitcase I purchased on the streets of NYC. Everything you bring to Burning Man you risk getting seriously dirty or losing. I felt okay sacrificing this.

I packed it full with costumes, sunscreen, sunglasses, flashlights, food, and other items on the official checklist. Everything is in plastic bags to keep it clean from the impending desert dust.

Upon arrival in Reno, the closest airport, I hit a Walmart to grab last-minute necessities such as jugs of water. Walmart was clearly prepared for all of the "Burners" driving from Reno.

The winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards were revealed on Monday. 

"The Awards celebrate both the work of amateur and professional photographers and the beauty and diversity of British wildlife," the organization said on its website.

The winning images in 16 different categories were chosen from thousands of entries.

You can check out all the winning images and a selection of highly recommended photos on the award website, and check out our favorites below.  

The winning image of a greylag goose, called "The Tourist," was taken by Lee Acaster. "It was a real privilege to have such a close encounter with a wild bird in the very heart of London," he said, "I vividly remember the excitement I felt as she patiently waited for me to get the shot, and I knew immediately this was a once in a lifetime opportunity."

Steven Fairbrother captured this image of a shag, a good-sized bird, resting in the Farne Islands of England. 

This photo of an otter munching down on a puffin was taken by Richard Shucksmith in Scotland. 

A close-up of a grey seal claw taken by Jim Greenfield in England. 

"Cairngorms" was photographed in Scotland by Peter Cairns.

Susie Hewitt snapped an image of a gnat in a window in northern Ireland. 

"A life at Sea for Nesting Gannets" was taken in Scotland by Ruth Asher.

A black and white photo of a blue shark was taken by Alexander Mustard in Cornwall, England. 

A red telephone box overgrown with vegetation was snapped in London by Philip Braude. 

Brown hares photographed by Andrew Parkinson in Derbyshire, England. 

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