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..
These are the faces of orphans suffering from the horrifying effects of chemical warfare .
A little clownfish opens its mouth to reveal a blood sucking intruder living on its tongue .
Like a scene from a fairytale, THOUSANDS of fireflies create an enchanting glow as they dance in a forest .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .
With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
FULLY equipped with a kitchen and lounge, it's hard to believe this modern holiday let is actually a BUS .