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 cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
With stunning scenery and otherworldly vistas, Iceland’s rural beauty is inescapable – especially for Hollywood .
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .
SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
MEET the little lion of suburbia with a mane that makes him look like a mini-king of the jungle .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .