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..
TOWERING 65 metres into the sky, this terrifying accent is a dream for climbers .
HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .
SURROUNDED by divers, a hungry green sea turtle enjoys being the centre of attention .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
WELCOME to the Temple of Zoom where you can “experience” sliding down a Mayan temple into shark infested waters .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
TUGGING on the wing of his sibling, this needy owl is after some attention .