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..
SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
A SHOCKING cartoon of a black man carrying bags saying‘’zippadydoohdah zip-up immigrant bags’ has appeared in a shop window and is being investigated by police .
A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
GLAMPING is taken to a whole new level in the form of the luxurious Pop-Up Hotel .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
Full of tired and busy commuters, these underground stations are rarely admired for their architecture or beauty .