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..
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .
FISTS fly as two gorillas take each other on in a dramatic battle .
A mischievous fox cub demonstrates his playful side by biting his sibling’s tail .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
DASHING through the snow, this little stoat is on the lookout for a Christmas feast .
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
HOTSPOT MEDIA - WAVE-ING GOODBYE TO RUSH HOUR: WHILE most workers endure commuting chaos by road or rail everyday, one entrepreneur has come up with a novel way to get to the office - by KAYAK .
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
A GLOWING range of greens and blues sweep across the sky in a spectacular display of light .
