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..
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
A TEN-THOUSAND square foot wide Avatar-style grove is such a beauty it will leave you feeling VINE .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
The rock restaurant, located in Zanzibar – THIS unique restaurant really does boast breath-taking views - as it is perched on a rock in the middle of the sea .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
WHETHER FLOATING through space or diving underwater, a lucky baby boy enjoys once in a life time experiences - in his DREAMS .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .