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..
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
From foster care to the MAGICAL world of cosplay, a young girl’s dreams become reality after being adopted by a photography loving couple .
CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
SQUEEZING their furry faces through a hole in a tree, a trio of curious baby squirrels leave their nest for the first time to explore their surroundings .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
