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..
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An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
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A diving guide leaves a shark completely docile and balanced in the palm of his hand .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
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