There is so much at our feet and all around us that we don't see. The bees are always in motion, the fungi and the slimes are unknown to us - so small that we never even knew to look.

Happiness for me comes from changing that and showcasing the beautiful details of nature that we hardly know exist at all.

Award-winning photo of lamproderma scintillans and didymium squamulosum slime molds growing on a blackberry thorn at extreme macro

Lamproderma scintillans and Didymium squamulosum maturing rapidly on a blackberry thorn. Stanmer Park, East Sussex, UK

 

A bumble bee asleep atop a flower

A male bumble bee a few minutes before waking, at dawn, atop a hill overlooking Lewes, East Sussex, UK

Slime molds that look like just detonated nukes
Comatricha alta in the middle of maturing
A jumping spider eating a queen ant
Yellow jacket wasp
A Large Skipper butterfly covered in dew in the morning sun
A striped millipede perched on a stick
Comatricha nigra maturing
A Large Skipper butterfly covered in dew in the morning sun
A bee covered in pollen
A sleeping bee
Small Heath butterfly at night
Craterium minutum growing along a thorn
Blood vein moth caterpillar
Comatricha nigra maturing with a springtail
Hemitrichia decipiens growing in a bug hole in a fallen log
The rescue mission - a line of Lamproderma rescue a friend
Metatrichia floriformis growing one atop another
Physarum album at sunset
Lamproderma scintillans looking like party balloons
Carnival candy slime mold
Metatrichia floriformis burst open in a field of coral slime mold
Lamproderma scintillans mature and ready to spread their spores, atop a gnarled and warped thorn
An unknown slime mold growing in the hole of an oak leaf
Comatricha alta slime mold in an alien desert
Lamproderma scintillans and Didymium squamulosum maturing together on a blackberry thorn.

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