Breakable Porcelain Fungus by Mart Smit

Thursday, 11th January 2007

Breakable Porcelain Fungus

by Mart Smit

This young fungus is as shiny, translucent and exquisite as its name suggests. Mart found it on a rotting beech tree in a forest close to his home in northern Holland. “The weather was so erratic,” he says, “one moment cloud, the next sun”. Just as he had set up his tripod and fixed an extender to his lens, the sun burst through and bathed the fungus in light. “The insect landing was the added bonus.”

Equipment: Canon EOS 20D with 300mm f2.8 lens and 2x extender and tripod.

Mart Smit

My name is Mart Smit, I was born in 1991 in Lutjewinkel. That’s a very small village in the northern part of the Netherlands, I still live there.
I am a student at a secondary school.
My favourite hobby is nature photography but I like also doing all kind of sports and working on my website www.martsmit.nl.
At a early age, I was already interested in nature. When I was about ten years old, I took all kind of pictures with my fathers equipment, but now I have my own.
In 2004 I won a price in the Argus Nature Photography competition in Belgium and that gave me the possibility to buy some excellent equipment.
The Canon EOS 20D and a Canon 100-400 5.6 L IS.
Most of my pictures are made in my neighbourhood, in our garden or around the farm of my grandparents.

www.martsmit.nl

10 Comments

Ann Says:
January 11th, 2007 at 4:59 am
Awesome-and doubly for one so young with such a well-visioned eye. Please, continue!!
Karen Gwinner Says:
January 11th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Amazing photography for such a young man. Well done! Keep up the good work.
Smitty Says:
January 11th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Your sense of wonder in the the natural world is very evident in this photo. That makes for a special photographer, regardless of age.
Michiel Says:
January 11th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Mooi foto kerel!
Grt, Michiel
De Wolf Jozefien Says:
January 11th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Zeer mooi,we zullen zeker nog van je horen in de toekomst
Franc-Sois Dandurand Says:
January 4th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Awesome shot! The tree looks like a rocky cliff. Contrast is amazing too! Nature is very fascinating, and your photographic insight into it makes me wish to visit that forest near the ocean.
Anurag Says:
January 11th, 2008 at 8:02 am
great shot, very delicate tonal gradation on the fungus in stark contrast with the black background makes for a very visually apealling image, and, the starburst formed by the highlights are just awesome. Just get rid of that fly.
Renee Says:
January 11th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Well i think this is a very good photo for such a young man!
Pieter -sAner- van der Horst Says:
January 12th, 2008 at 12:13 am
Beautiful! I like those sun-sparks on the hood of the biggest mushroom. Great DOF, well composed and excellent details.
Peter Cooney Says:
May 4th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Lucky to catch a fly taking a rest, very good!