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 COLOURFUL autumn leaves to living trees at first glance you might miss these people blended with nature .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .
These adorable pictures show the moment two cuddly red panda cubs take their first look at the outside world and are weighed for the very first time .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
HEART-MELTING shots of a French bulldog and a ten-month-old French baby could be the cutest you’re likely to see .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .