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..
This tranquil setting stretches for miles as the sun sets behind the mountain .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
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Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
WELCOME to the pretty 122-inch-tall red dwelling that lays claim to the title of the UK's smallest house .