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 may look like a dolphin through jumping hoops, but it is in fact nothing more than a clever 3D pencil drawing .
DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
A British jewellery designer with a passion for London's iconic Gherkin has created a pen with an INK-REDIBLE price tag of £27,500 .
With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
These uninvited guests ELEPHANTLY make their annual trip through the reception of this welcoming lodge .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .