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..
WRAPPED up in classy headscarves, these adorable pooches are the picture of sophistication .
LIKE SUPERMAN carrying a slimy Lois Lane through the air this frog is treating its mate to a flying lesson .
A tiny puppy who lost his front legs after being hit by a train has been given and new LEASH of life with a set of wheels .
A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
SNOWBOARDING in your £2,000 wedding dress sounds like a nightmare for most brides .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
A puppy bit off more than he could chew when he stole a six inch Chinese spare rib from his owner and swallowed it WHOLE, Cheeky Staffordshire bull terrier Rossi had his life SPARED when he underwent a life-saving operation to remove the bone from his stomach after swiping part of the takeaway meal .
SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .