Laurie says:

I originally found found these remarkable photographs at Sunnyskyz. Steve Axford of New South Wales shot many of these photos. He shoots everything from micro fungi to volcanoes.  Visit his website for the remarkable breadth of is work.

I’ve seen a lot of fine photographs of fungi. I find them particularity beautiful and will go hiking at the right time of year just to look at them. I think Wexford’s work is exceptional.

Click on the pictures for a gallery view – the details are stunning.
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Steve says: I live in the Northern Rivers area of NSW and I am doing essentially what I like.  What I like is photography and exploring the world.  The world, for me, is dominated by living things and the planet we live on .  My photography is an avenue into exploring this world.  My interests cover everything from micro fungi to volcanoes, though more of my time now is spent with the fungi than the volcanoes.  

The Northern Rivers was once a huge area of uninterrupted subtropical, lowland rainforest and I have a little piece of it to look after and restore  to the best of my ability.  It is very rewarding and the native plants, animals, birds, and fungi love it.  While doing this I have developed a passion for the way things fit together (the ecology).  Nothing exists in isolation and the more you look, the more connections you find.  Oddly enough, this fits with what I used to work at, as a designer and manager of large computer systems. Although the world is a far more complex  than any man made computer system, the rules learnt with one can be applied to the other.  

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My photography has been my avenue into this world as it slows me down and allows me to look at things more closely.  Most of my photography is still pictures, as you will see on this site. I try to combine the beauty I see with some scientific accuracy, so most of my photos could be used to identify things and will show the fine detail.  Recently I have started to take time lapse videos of mushrooms, and other things, growing.  This adds another dimension to an already fascination world and sometimes allows a glimpse into the world of interactions between different life forms.

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If I ever decide to do this kind of photography, fungi will be up there with the Icelandic microflora.