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LIGHT GOLD AWARD WINNER – Bernhard Schubert, Austria. Prize: £500.
Image Title: Magic Spores
Subject: Cockroach and bracket fungus
On a night hike through a Bornean national park, I noticed this bracket fungus releasing masses of spores. At first, I held my headlamp behind the fungus to get a better sense of the floating spores. As I tried capturing the scene with my camera and a flash, I noticed that the white light split up in many different spectral colours. Experimenting to achieve the right angle for the flash in relation to the position of my camera took quite a while, but in the end I was rewarded with this picture. The cockroach which came by later added just the final touch to it.
Equipment and Settings: Canon EOS 5D mark IV with Tamron 35mm DI VC f/1.8 lens. Focal length 35mm; 1/200 second; f/16; ISO 800. Meike MT-24 flash.
Website address: www.bernhardschubert.com
Instagram: @bernhardschubertphoto

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