Thee Are So Many Different Types Of Photography,

portrait, sports, still-life, landscape, to name a few,

and here is another, macro photography, Alison Pollack’s preferred subjects are the tiny, inconspicuous organisms that are difficult to spot without a trained eye and microscope, above Lachnum virgineum, all images © Alison Pollack,

Physarum album, the photographer told BoredPanda that what excites her the most about mushrooms and Myxomycetes is their amazing diversity in colour, shape, size, texture – everything, really,

Didymium, “I am especially drawn to the tiny ones and the detail that cannot be seen by the naked eye. Many people have never heard of Myxomycetes, and also do not know that there are so many beautiful tiny fungi. My passion is to photograph them to show people the amazing beauty right at their feet as they walk in the forest,” Alison stated,

Eyelash Cup Fungus (Scutellinia), although her earlier images captured the fleshy fungi in spectacular detail, Pollack has spent the last two years getting even closer to her subjects—which are often less than a millimetre tall—by using a microscope lens that magnifies her findings up to 20 times their actual size. The resulting images document even the smallest features, like individual spores, the veiny web structure encasing them, and the distinct texture and colour of each organism,

top left: Badhamia utricularis. Top right: Typhula on a decomposing leaf. Bottom left: Polycephalomyces tomentosus on Trichia botrytis. Bottom right: Candle snuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon), you can findmore of her work on Instagram and Facebook to see what she spots next and to order prints of her photos, You also might enjoy this documentary trailer,

about the vast underground network of mycelium that’s tied to all life on Earth, featuring conversations with food journalist Eugenia Bone, mycologist Paul Stamets, and writer Michael Pollan, Fantastic Fungi: The Magic Beneath Us dives into how the diverse underground web creates the soil necessary for plants and trees to root. “It’s amazing what we don’t know about mushrooms. They really are a frontier of knowledge,” Pollan says in the film, great trailer and stunning photographs.