Mushrooms shoot

Winner of the still life series category in the London photographic awards.
I kept spotting some really interesting tiny mushrooms on walks I’d taken. I decided to try and photograph them with my large format 5X4 Sinar camera, using 5X4 sheet film. Not easy trying to get a camera that big on the ground, and level with a tiny mushroom, but as I would have to extend the camera bellows out quite considerably to fill the frame with the mushroom, I thought it would give a really nice look with a shallow depth field.

I entered the shots into the London Photographic awards and was awarded winner of the still life series category. This picture is the double page spread from the awards book.