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..
WELCOME to the Temple of Zoom where you can “experience” sliding down a Mayan temple into shark infested waters .
STOOD side by side next to a busy road, these buildings were once bustling with life .
FROM a Kung-Fu professional to a mini incredible hulk, these are the babies you wouldn't want to mess with .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .
THIS is the fascinating abandoned house, complete with mystery portraits and homely items, that has been dubbed - crooked cottage .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .