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..
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
A BEAUTIFUL sight for the eyes and the imagination, these liquid sculptures take shape in many different colours and formations .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
FROM KISSING an alligator on the nose to walking over broken glass, this fearless daredevil is a real life female JACKASS .
A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
FIFTEEEN years after it was closed pictures by a British teacher show the calamity Hong Kong airport that was closed for being too dangerous .
THESE kaleidoscopic-like photographs capture England’s churches and cathedrals in all their glory .
