While I was wandering around Rose’s Reserve I noticed lots of bright apple green moss, alive with tiny insects and tiny fungi.  Mostly little orange ones, but there were also larger chestnut brown toadstools with mottled stalks and very tiny ones on the thinest stalks growing directly out of dead Eucalypt leaves.  Another world.  It had rained the night before.  Kalli’s got very wet in the vestibule but once we got up and were walking about she seemed to have forgotten the cold night and was happy exploring and climbing logs.  The little toadstools were beautiful, perfectly formed, glistening from the rain, growing out of tiny fern like moss.  I got out my macro lens.  A beautiful 200mm Nikon macro, of the old type, heavy, well built.  A lens that hasn’t changed in 20 years.  Clunky and slow but it takes beautiful images.  Dreamy translucent backgrounds and fascinating bokeh.  I love the lens, but macro photography is fiddly.  The tiny scales mean any movement has a huge impact so tripods are generally called for.  I wanted to be on eye level and even when flat the head of the tripod meant the camera was too high, so I used my hiking towel and nestled the camera into it to stabilise.  Another world!  I took a lot of images and only a few of them really worked but I was very happy with what I got and am massively inspired to spend more time in the undergrowth seeking out these tiny sparkling faery places.  This image of a tiny toadstool, in the background are two that were a little younger with capes that hadn’t opened out fully, blurred out with the green moss and tiny grass spikes.