Surfing with the alien

Wasn’t that a “Joe Satriani” song?? No idea if I spelt that right.. Otherwise a wonderful capture

beautiful … truly alien looking …

Beautiful image, and I love the delicate colour!

Superb shot Steve!

brilliant,,,, well done

oh wow…..did u saturate the colors for this or …?

Great interrupta shot.

This is great Steve. Definately alienesque.

Or a brilliant blue cobra!! Great shot and find!

Congratulations , Steve . You won the challenge. Well done. I am very happy for you ;-)

You know I hardly can get these blue Mycena species sharp. I find them little buggers to make an image of. You must have a very good camera or I must do something wrong. I managed to get a shot from underneath yesterday. The best one since a long time. Yours is amazing!!!

p.s. I didn’t win (which I am not dissappointed about).

This one was taken with a very special lens as the mushroom was no more than 1cm high. The lens is a Canon MP-E 65mm and really has to be used with a flash – in this case a macro twin flash. It is all hand held, but this is a merge of 2 exposures to get that extra depth of field. It is quite expensive and it isn’t very easy. I know of people who have given up with that lens as they can’t get it to work.

CONGRATULATIONS!! Your amazing image was voted the WINNER in our Raindrops On The Fungi Challenge in Rain Drops & Water Art Group – 1st PLACE

I try and have something for everyone mate! :O)

Congratulations , Steve. You won the Wet Fungi challenge.

wow brilliant picture i didn’t know they glow like that

Much good work Steve,congratulations on your first place. ..Jozef

Like something from another world, Fantastic image a well deserved challenge winner , congratulations! kind regards mark.

Awesome! Congrats on the challenge win !