Happy #MacroMonday ! Six droplets of water on my glass coffee table. My MacBook Air is on the floor under the table. I got the idea for this shot from the amazing Joey Terrill.
#Pentax K-S2 with smc DA L 18–50mm F4–5.6 DC #kitlens . ƒ/11, 4sec @ ISO 400. Focus stacked image using Affinity Photo.
I suspect this is Badhamia utricularis, a species of slime mould in the family Physaraceae on a dead limb, most likely from an oak tree..
To give you some idea of scale, each of those yellow globules is less than 1 millimetre diameter. This is a 20 shot photo stack to get enough depth of field.
This is another of my focus stacking images, taken with my Canon 180mm macro lens. The method involved taking multiple images, each time moving the camera a minute distance closer on a rail. There were a total of 40 images taken to produce this.
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One of the smallest Cladonia lichens I have ever found, even the fruiting bodies with their red apothecia are no larger than 2 mm.
But there are even tinier fruiting bodies on this lichen, they are called pycnidia.
You can see them in the macro photos, took these photos to identify the lichen but I'm not done yet.