Led by: Bryce McQuillan

In the evening, weather permitting, we can expect to see a mix of web-building spiders and tunnel-web spiders in and on the large redwood trees, along with a range of other
invertebrates such as slugs including native leaf veined slugs, moths, cave weta, and beetles. May is also a good time for fungi, which can provide excellent opportunities for close up photography of fungi and the fungi gills, particularly when using macro diffusers to bring out their structure and colour.

While the redwood forest is primarily made up of pine and redwood trees and does not have the same overall diversity as a native forest, there is still a high abundance of
invertebrates present. This means there will be plenty of opportunity to find and photograph a wide variety of subjects.

Ideally, in addition to your camera, your equipment should include a macro lens, a flash and a diffuser if you have one.

NB: Bryce's workshop earlier in the day will include making a diffuser for this purpose.