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 lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
Gigantic 100ft waves create the perfect playground for dare-devil surfers from across the world .
THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .
These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .