Umpteen species of rove beetles and one Notiophilus (see inside circle) are visible in this shot. They were all collected in an hour or two's time spent picking apart woodland fungi over a plastic sheet. Besides coral fungi, I looked for the rotten black-brown slimy clusters of rotten mushrooms. The fresh mushrooms have little to offer, so I've leaned to leave them alone.

My method of late has been to place my subjects in a clear plastic deli container inside my light arena with colored background and millimeter ruler visible below. I remove my ring flash from the lens and place it facing the wall of the frosted pastic wastebasket that's surrounded with four 12" circline flourescent bulbs. That way when the flash goes off, the light is bounced around quite a bit. If the ring flash were in its normal position on the lens, the lens would not be able to get close enough to the bottom of the deli container to focus on anything.