Catherine Marciniak and Stephen Axford have spent more than a decade travelling through forests in Australia and around the world, documenting fungi through photography and time-lapse, and along the way they've helped uncover species new to science.

Their work featured on David Attenborough's Planet Earth 2 and they have produced their own book and documentary.

Catherine and Stephen capture some extraordinary time-lapse footage. In this episode they discuss with David Boldeman how it all started and why it matters.

Planet Fungi: A Photographer's Foray by Catherine Marciniak, Stephen Axford, Tom May is published by CSIRO Publishing and is available in print or eBook.

The documentary Follow the Rain is available to watch on Netflix.

Other related sites:

• iNaturalist Australia: Stephen specifically discussed people documenting fungi and uploading observations to iNaturalist.
• FungiMap Australia: A natural companion resource given the discussion around citizen observations and fungi discovery.

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