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 incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .
A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
A small Indian monkey is seemingly gob-smacked after reading the latest stock market news .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
A Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .
WHETHER FLOATING through space or diving underwater, a lucky baby boy enjoys once in a life time experiences - in his DREAMS .
