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..
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
A cheeky chipmunk offers some of his spare food, before deciding against the idea and shoving the extra peanut into his already crammed mouth .
Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .
FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .
WONDERS of the world have been transformed into their mini-versions in a seven-year round the world adventure .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
STOOD side by side next to a busy road, these buildings were once bustling with life .