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..
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
A couple celebrated tying the knot with a spectacular Alice in Wonderland-themed wedding reception .
VENTURING into the ocean with self-made spears and nets, the fishermen of Zanzibar put their lives on the line when they catch food for their families .
The lighthouses of Brittany, from Brest to Le Conquet, stand tall on France’s north-western coast against stunning scenery .
EXPERTLY camouflaged, this clever panther chameleon knows how to catch its prey by surprise .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
At first glance what might look like ordinary rusty bridge and road railings, are in fact amazing works of art .
These are the amazing close up pictures of North Korea's mass games - after photographers were previously banned from taking shots so close to the dazzling formation dances .
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .