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..
SKIPPING on the spot, an adorable little owl embraces the 'running man' challenge .
CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
WELCOME to the drawing room that is home to the £100K world’s greatest collection of Margaret Thatcher autographed objects .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
MAKING himself at home, this little snail perches happily on top of this frog's head .
