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..
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
FINALLY catching a meal, a pair of great white egrets fight over their dinner .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
A photographer from the United Arab Emirates travelled to Pakistan where he captured the lives of local people in a series of expressive portraits .
Scurrying along the branch of a tree, a little squirrel pushes a pram packed full of Easter treats .
SNEAKING slowly into the water, this Bengal tiger plans a vicious attack on three unsuspecting deer .
A BAMBI was dramatically caught in mid-air by a greedy Nile crocodile in a once-in-a-million flying pincer move .