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..
A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .
BURSTING colours of reds, pinks and purples give the illusion of a collection of stunning flowers .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day and for this greedy camel he can't get enough of his morning feed, as he gate crashes his owner's mealtime .
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
Scurrying along the branch of a tree, a little squirrel pushes a pram packed full of Easter treats .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .