Name: Carlos Pérez Naval
Picture title: Over the Mineral World
Nationality: Spanish
Occupation: Student (secondary school)

Carlos:
‘Natural wonders occur all around us, but most of the time we don’t even notice. I spotted these two yellow ladybugs (Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata) on a wall close to my school in Calamocha, Teruel, Spain. The insects themselves are pretty enough – with their bright yellow bodies and black spots – but it’s the mineral world below them that really makes this picture for me. The “drawings” in the rock are actually mineral precipitations of manganese oxide.’

Technical information:
Nikon D700
Nikon 105mm f/2.8
ISO 2000
f/16
1/60sec
Post processing: Basic adjustments in Lightroom

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