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 .
SAILING over crystal clear waters, the Bajau people of Malaysia live their lives almost entirely at SEA .
THROWING himself off 1,100ft bridges in a wheelchair, this is the PARALYSED base jumper who knows no fear .
SNOWBOARDING in your £2,000 wedding dress sounds like a nightmare for most brides .
A BAMBI was dramatically caught in mid-air by a greedy Nile crocodile in a once-in-a-million flying pincer move .
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .
THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .
WONDERS of the world have been transformed into their mini-versions in a seven-year round the world adventure .
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 .
A unique business in Birkenhead, Merseyside is sure to leave you HALF-CUT with its unusual pub and barbers combination .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .