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 cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
A NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .
WELCOME to what could be the world's tallest TOTALLY wooden construction .
THIS is the shocking moment a clumsy radio newsreader plunged into a freezing canal while texting her boyfriend instead of looking where she was going .
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .
A luxury caravan with a price tag of ONE MILLION DOLLARS is due to hit the road later this year .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
WITH STUNNING colours and serene scenes, these photographs capture the otherworldly beauty of the English coast .