I took this photo of a small mushroom in the Leuvenum forest near Harderwijk. I just don't know what kind of mushroom it is but it was worth taking a picture of. In the background, you can still see the autumn colours on the trees. For this photo I used 2 reportage flash units to lighten the mushroom so that it stood out better. The piece of wood this small mushroom is standing on is actually a dead tree that has been lying on the ground for a while. Although I had a macro lens on my camera, this photo is not a macro photo but a close-up. For a macro, I should have been closer to the mushroom.
Welcome to my shop. My name is Gerard de Zwaan and I was born in 1983 in the Veluwe town of Harderwijk where I grew up and still live. I started photography in 2013. My first camera was a Nikon D3200 which I still own and is now as a.. Read more…