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..
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
A cheeky chipmunk offers some of his spare food, before deciding against the idea and shoving the extra peanut into his already crammed mouth .
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 .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
A TEN-THOUSAND square foot wide Avatar-style grove is such a beauty it will leave you feeling VINE .
It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
A small Indian monkey is seemingly gob-smacked after reading the latest stock market news .
CAUSING a splash, this determined kingfisher goes hunting for dinner .
BALANCING on top of a tree, this bear cub puts her climbing skills to the test .
