The amazing world of fungi – in pictures

Dr Tom May, a mycologist at the Royal Botanic Gardens and an expert witness at the Erin Patterson trial, has collaborated with renowned fungi photographer Stephen Axford and writer Catherin Marciniak for Planet Fungi, a new book from CSIRO Publishing full of incredible macro-photography

The Guardian
Mycena Mushroom Releasing Spores

I had long wanted to make the distribution of spores visible. Today, I succeeded. I used my headlamp as a backlight and took the photo with a Nikon Z8 and a 105 mm macro lens at F8.0.

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