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..
BURSTING colours of reds, pinks and purples give the illusion of a collection of stunning flowers .
This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
A BABY-faced burglar is starting a seven year stretch in custody after being nabbed by a Jaffa Cake .
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
