With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet. These mesmorising pictures, however, capture the beautiful variety of fungi here on Earth. The incredible images were taken by Australian photographer Stephen Axford, 62, after he became familiar with the importance of fungi in everyday life, and decided to document it twelve years ago..
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
Going for long rides through vast fields together, this twosome share an unbreakable bond .
Pic By Graham Gibson/ HotSpot Media - SHARK HYPNOTIST BALANCES SHARK IN PALM OF HIS HAND- In Pic - Diver Tom and Caribbean reef sharks in the Bahamas- A SHARK hypnotist balances these predators in the palm of his hand by sending them to sleep with a gentle nose rub .
SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .
Pic By HotSpot Media - PARROT RIDES ON THE TUBE - THIS pretty boy could be forgiven for forgetting his Oyst-aaarrrgh-card .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .