17-year-old captures the detail of this tiny predator with a Fujifilm X-H2 camera by patiently shooting a 104-frame focus stack

A macro photograph captures a tiny, reddish-brown pseudoscorpion using its enlarged, clawed pedipalps to hold and subdue a translucent, smaller arthropod prey item on a moist, textured surface.

Most wildlife photographers dream of capturing lions stalking prey on the African savanna. One 17-year-old found his apex predator much closer to home… but needed a microscope-level view to see it.

Predator is an extraordinarily detailed image of a pseudoscorpion (chernes cimicoides) preying upon a springtail. It won the German photographer Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas the Youth 15-17 years category at the GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025, and rightly so.