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..
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
HEART-MELTING shots of a French bulldog and a ten-month-old French baby could be the cutest you’re likely to see .
Throwing a right hook as he launches onto his opponent with his gnarling teeth at the ready, this is the OTTER-LY ruthless showdown between two otters .
This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .
A NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .
RACING through the mountain range on horseback, the Kazakh people practice their ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
