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..
Going for long rides through vast fields together, this twosome share an unbreakable bond .
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
TUGGING on the wing of his sibling, this needy owl is after some attention .
These beautiful photographs show how these playful pods of dolphins make their own fun by gliding, flipping and spinning through the air whilst enjoying the sun on their backs .
USUALLY full to bursting, these London Underground stations stand silent and completely commuter free .
These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .
THIS may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
CAUSING a splash, this determined kingfisher goes hunting for dinner .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .