Abandoned Armoured Repair Plant in Kharkiv (Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine) June 1, 2012. (Photo by Pasha Itkin; Source: LiveJournal).

“Daredevil Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk on a tightrope across the Niagara Falls, taking steady, measured steps June 15, 2012 for 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of the roaring falls separating the U.S. and Canada”. (Photo by John Moore/David Duprey/AP Photo)

Sebastien Laurent, manager of the Zoo, gives a slice of cake to Major, the holdest captive Orang-Outang in the world, as part of its 50th birthday ceremony, on July 17, 2012, at the La Boissiere-du-Doree Zoo near Nantes, western France. (Photo by Alain Jocard/AFP Photo)

Japanese Cosplay Photoshoot, taken on August 2-6, 2012. Photo: Guilty Crown ギルティクラウン 罪惡王冠 楪 祈 いのり ゆずりは Inori. (Photo by EE Fai)

Originally hailing from a small town in Iowa, Adonna Khare was this year’s recipient of the Art Prize 2012 for her amazingly detailed large-scale pencil on paper works. All of Khare’s work evolve naturally without much pre-planning, essentially building her pieces as she continues to work.

Visitors look at an installation by Olaf Metzel at the exhibition “ARTandPRESS” at Martin Gropius Bau on March 26, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition shows works by artists who have interpreted the medium of newspapers and is open from March 23 to June 24. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

A man inspects a plastic cover placed over an artwork attributed to Banksy on May 17, 2012 in London, England. The stencilled image depicts a poor child making Union Jack flags on a sewing machine and is located on the wall of a Poundland discount shop in the Wood Green area of north London. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid)

Volunteers from the South Carolina Aquarium release a rehabilitated Loggerhead Sea Turtles on May 18, 2012 in Isle of Palms, South Carolina. The turtle was one of two that were rescued and nursed back to health by the sea turtle hospital at the aquarium. (Photo by Richard Ellis)