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..
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
RACING through the mountain range on horseback, the Kazakh people practice their ancient tradition of hunting with golden eagles .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
The view from this rooftop pool is sure to make most holidaymakers envious .
A NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
A little clownfish opens its mouth to reveal a blood sucking intruder living on its tongue .
A small Indian monkey is seemingly gob-smacked after reading the latest stock market news .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .