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..
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .
RACING through the mountain range on horseback, the Kazakh people practice their ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
BURSTING colours of reds, pinks and purples give the illusion of a collection of stunning flowers .
A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .
EXPERTLY camouflaged, this clever panther chameleon knows how to catch its prey by surprise .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
IN a galaxy not so far away lies a magical display of lights that could be the latest image from NASA .