Photographing Bioluminescent Roridomyces

Some glow-in-the-dark shots of a special species of Roridomyces my friend found for me in Gombak, Kuala Lumpur.

From the years of photographing bioluminescent species of mushrooms, I’ve always found Roridomyces to be the trickiest. It’s always a gamble. Typically, either the stipe, mycelium, spores, or cap glow in any order. Or not at all, and I’m left in the dark.

Roridomyces is a species in Family Mycenaceae with a wide distribution found in both temperate and t…