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..
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SAILING over crystal clear waters, the Bajau people of Malaysia live their lives almost entirely at SEA .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
Peering curiously into a basket hanging off the arms of a snowman, this little squirrel appears fascinated by the snowy figure .
SNUGGLING up against their teddy bears, these baby sloths could easily be mistaken for one of the cuddly toys .
Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
Going for long rides through vast fields together, this twosome share an unbreakable bond .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .