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..
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .
WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
When couples talk about wanting a white wedding, few will be referring to getting hitched on a glacier sat on top of an active volcano .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .
LIKE A living balloon this baitball of sardines is ready to burst when threatened by a pointy nosed sailfish .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
Peering curiously into a basket hanging off the arms of a snowman, this little squirrel appears fascinated by the snowy figure .