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..
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
The rock restaurant, located in Zanzibar – THIS unique restaurant really does boast breath-taking views - as it is perched on a rock in the middle of the sea .
AN ARRAY of colours, from pinks to blues and oranges, fill the night sky to create an amazing collection of interstellar patterns .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
At first glance what might look like ordinary rusty bridge and road railings, are in fact amazing works of art .
SKIPPING on the spot, an adorable little owl embraces the 'running man' challenge .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .