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..
From the rolling hills of the Brecon Beacons to the still waters in the Lake District, these photographs capture autumnal landscapes across Great Britain perfectly .
WELCOME to the Temple of Zoom where you can “experience” sliding down a Mayan temple into shark infested waters .
BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .