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..
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
MAKING himself at home, this little snail perches happily on top of this frog's head .
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
THIS BIGFOOT 'Jesus bird' may look silly, but he's perfectly designed for walking on water .
BURSTING colours of reds, pinks and purples give the illusion of a collection of stunning flowers .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book .