This is a critically endangered rainforest and Australian naturalist Stephen Axford is on the hunt for his favourite photographic subject.
It’s hidden in the leaf litter and rotting logs … he’s looking for fungi.
You might think documenting fungi is a very obscure photographic interest - but the truth is that Axford’s images of mushrooms have captured the imaginations of millions of people all over the world.
These images also attracted the attention of producers at the BBC who’ve showcased some of Axford’s time-lapses in Planet Earth 2 … the latest David Attenborough documentary.
Planet Earth II, possibly the most lavish nature documentary ever made, has catapulted the images taken by fungi photographer Steve Axford from the forest floor to the world.
Axford started photographing rainforests around Lismore, on the NSW North Coast, about 10 years ago, and in retirement, the hobby became an obsession.
The next step for Axford was to find a way to create time lapses of his fungi beauties showing the life cycles of the mushrooms.
"I had a spare shower which I thought the fungus would grow quite well in so I could bring logs in and put them in the shower and the fungus could grow and I could take time-lapse," Axford said.
"Well I did that and it worked brilliantly and things have just grown from there."
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