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..
FROM KISSING an alligator on the nose to walking over broken glass, this fearless daredevil is a real life female JACKASS .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
A BEAUTIFUL sight for the eyes and the imagination, these liquid sculptures take shape in many different colours and formations .
A WIMBLEDON-mad couple will be creating a racket this summer - after installing a TENNIS COURT in their living room .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .