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 lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .
HEART-MELTING shots of a French bulldog and a ten-month-old French baby could be the cutest you’re likely to see .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
WITH their robotic movements and pristine uniforms, these are the sexy traffic girls of North Korea that are becoming iconic figures in the secretive state .
