Honorable Mention
Microcosmic portrait of a garden tiger moth Arctia caja
DESCRIPTION
Extreme sharp and detailed microcosmic portrait of a garden tiger moth Arctia caja taken with two lenses: MC Jupiter-37A, which was made in 1985, and a retro lens Zenitar-M 1,7/50, made in 1982, as one lens, stacked from 179 shots into one very sharp photo. Magnificafion is 2,5x. AUTHOR
Irina Petrova is an internationally published and award winning photographer and artist. She specializes in wild life micro-photography and science fiction inspired installations organically integrating living and artificial entities. A unique feature of her work is she only uses retro manual focus lenses to share the wonders of the world. She has won a substantial number of awards and prizes, including 3 recent awards in BIFA 2020, winner of FEP Awards 2021 Nature Golden Camera and ND Discovery of the Year in category Nature 2019. 