#macrophoto — Public Fediverse posts

Whilst taking these photos, I tried to push the camera to its limits in terms of macro photography. These Hymenoscyphus fungi are about a millimetre in size. The Xiaomi camera struggles to cope with subjects of this size; it doesn’t capture the details. The same with insects – I can see springtails scurrying about in the moss, but they’re too small. The second photo shows a bizarre Conomelus, a very small beetle that peeked out at me whilst I was taking photos in the grass.
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Today I headed into the marshes with a clear aim: to be in a place where no one goes and where I could have some peace and quiet. I was also hoping to find some mushrooms to photograph there. I love photographing Mycena mushrooms – those tiny, almost translucent ones, just a few millimetres in size. I’ve also got better at finding my way through the tangled trunks, in to the spot where I can sit on the barkless trunks, felled long ago by beavers.
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