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..
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .
WELCOME to the drawing room that is home to the £100K world’s greatest collection of Margaret Thatcher autographed objects .
WITH A wide smile plastered across his face, this little gecko is ready for his close up .
This is the amazing moment two white-tailed kites take an in-flight meal - exchanging prey at 100 foot high in mid air .
WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze .
SURROUNDED by divers, a hungry green sea turtle enjoys being the centre of attention .
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
SNUGGLING up against their teddy bears, these baby sloths could easily be mistaken for one of the cuddly toys .
