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 pair of BEAUTIFUL rescue sea turtles spot their catch in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
WELCOME to what could be the world's tallest TOTALLY wooden construction .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .
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 .
These uninvited guests ELEPHANTLY make their annual trip through the reception of this welcoming lodge .
WEARING tiny Christmas accessories, these adorable babies get into the spirit of the season .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .