Nature Up Close

Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope Aurantia)

Wild mushrooms. A cluster of wild mushrooms rise up like a dense pattern of buidlings in a city. Fungi are nature's original recycler. Above ground is just the fruit, below ground there can be miles of fungal networks interconnecting trees an other plants in a symbiotic relationship.

Bird of Pardise Leaf Shoot illuminated with a flash at night. The process of using a flash gives a glowing affect to the leaf as the light is captured and channeled down through the leaf.