“Little Ball” by Tamás Koncz-Bisztricz
First Place, “Young”
A very tiny bug is pictured, she is bright yellow and seems “fuzzy,” around her is silver and white light and water
Photo: Tamás Koncz-Bisztricz
I regularly visit a meadow near my hometown of Csongrád-Bokros, Hungary, observing the site in all seasons. The meadow is grazed by Hungarian grey cattle, which keeps the place in relatively good condition. One frosty winter’s morning I headed out to take some extreme macro shots at the surface of some frozen water that had pooled in the tracks left by a tractor. Crouching down, I spotted some yellow globular springtails (Sminthurus maculatus) which feed in the sunrays reflected from the ice. I used LED torches to illuminate one of them, and came away with a picture that celebrates this tiny creature.