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..
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .
EXPERTLY camouflaged, this clever panther chameleon knows how to catch its prey by surprise .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .