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..
SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .
A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .
A photographer has travelled the length of the UK capturing lighthouses and their picturesque surroundings .
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .
Gabrielle Dale, 26, was subjected to seven years of coercive control and physical abuse at the hands of her violent boyfriend Sean Owen, 29 .
WENDY Randall, 16, from Kent is now training to be a bodybuilder after recovering from anorexia .
WONDERS of the world have been transformed into their mini-versions in a seven-year round the world adventure .
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An eight-year-old boy who lost his legs and left hand to meningitis is standing tall after learning to walk on his prosthetic limbs .
RECORD BREAKING GRAN'S COLLECTION OF NEARLY 800 SHEEP HOTSPOT MEDIA – WITH PICS 0121 551 1004 By Katie Thompson A record-breaking baa-rmy gran with a love for sheep has amassed a collection of nearly 800 woolly wonders .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .