As said in a post a couple of days ago: I love to photograph such little scenes in the woods more and more, but they are so hard to find, at least for me. This old rotten root that I have found during a walk through a beech forest seems to be surrounded by little green stars.

It's a focus stack image from about 30 photos, taken with my Canon EOS R5 and the RF 100mm Macro lens.
The images were stacked with Helicon Focus and edited in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.