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SUMMARY
Macro photographer Barry Webb won the Botanical Britain category at the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2026 for an image of 1mm-tall slime mold. The image was created by focus stacking 87 separate shots to overcome the shallow depth of field inherent in extreme macro photography. Webb used the OM System OM-1, noted as the world's first IP53 weather-sealed camera and the first Cross Quad Pixel AF camera, for the shot. The slime mold species, Lamproderma scintillans, was photographed on a fragment of wood, and the image highlights its iridescent surface potentially acting as a water repellent.
TAKEAWAYS
An award-winning macro photo of 1mm slime mold was created using 87 stacked images.
The photograph was captured with the OM System OM-1, the first IP53 weather-sealed camera.
Focus stacking was employed to achieve the necessary depth of field for the extreme macro shot.