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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Peering curiously into a basket hanging off the arms of a snowman, this little squirrel appears fascinated by the snowy figure .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .
Destroyed buildings and overturned cars are seen after a huge tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City, May 20, 2013 .
From foster care to the MAGICAL world of cosplay, a young girl’s dreams become reality after being adopted by a photography loving couple .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
This is the amazing moment two white-tailed kites take an in-flight meal - exchanging prey at 100 foot high in mid air .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .