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..
OFFERING a glimpse into the past, a mash-up of old and new photographs show how the world’s biggest cities have changed .
PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .
SPURTING water 20ft into the air, this is one well you wouldn't want to dip your bucket into .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .
WELCOME to the Temple of Zoom where you can “experience” sliding down a Mayan temple into shark infested waters .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
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STAIRWAY obsessed photographers have captured psychedelic shots that will mesmerise you .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .