Okay, here goes a few fungus for those who care…
pain master said:
Okay, here goes a few fungus for those who care…
Ooh, awesome! I get in trouble for stopping to take fungi photos when we’re on holidays. Not as good as yours though :)
here’s a lump of timber with a whole bunch of chocolate fungi… all on board.
another fungus.
a stinkhorn!
this one almost looked edible… it would be if it were white chocolate and caramel….
a brown fungus.
Thanks for sharing pm.
Your pics are always stunning!
Happy Potter said:
Thanks for sharing pm.
Your pics are always stunning!
cheers HP, there are more to come… The fungus are plenty this time of year, nice warm moist soils with plenty of leaf litter.
Check out this green fungus.
and these gold caps…
pain master said:
and these gold caps…
oops.
a little brown fellow.
a smurf fungus.
these gold ones get quite large and open up to release their spores…
almost finished, this one glows in the dark. Very delicate.
the variety of fungi is truly amazing
the last one. A very stinky fungi that opens up revealing spores and smell. The flies love it and get right in there spreading the sticky stinky pores around. Top View. My fave.
pain master said:
pain master said:
and these gold caps…
oops.
the are pretty and dainty looking :)
Stunning Fungi shots PM. I think it’s wonderful that you are amongst all these strange and beautiful botanicals and that you appreciate them too. Too many people might not even see them. Thanks for sharing.
bluegreen said:
pain master said:
pain master said:
and these gold caps…
oops.
the are pretty and dainty looking :)
They look like coconut balls!
orchid40 said:
Stunning Fungi shots PM. I think it’s wonderful that you are amongst all these strange and beautiful botanicals and that you appreciate them too. Too many people might not even see them. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks orchid40, some of the guides I travel with think I am a bit odd, especially when I have to get down in the understory and get a bit dirty and grubby to get a few shots. The walk I took with all the fungus shots took around 6 hours, and I only covered about 15kms. Probably would have gone a lot quicker if I left my camera at home ;)
I found fungi absolutely fascinating when we studied them in biology. Quite an amazing structure. The mycelium, which is the bit that grows beneath the soil or leaf matter or bread surface, is often absolutely huge compared with the bit above the surface that you see. That’s why they can just appear out of nowhere – the mycelium is sitting below the surface just waiting to ‘erupt’.
fungi are particularly maligned plants – but their images are unforgettable.
ta PM.
Thanks Pepe, I like the way fungus don’t blow around in the wind. Easier to get a good shot ;)
Thanks for sharing your photos, PM :D A pleasure to view – as always!
but wait, there’s more…
and another:
and this one is odd…
and a woody fungi…
and some bally kinda looking ones…
ooops.
very nicely composed photos, PM…I can almost smell the leaf mulch, decaying wood, and feel the damp…
Reely GTG
:)
thaniks Dinetta0. :)
Oh those bally ones are cool ..I have some similar but haven’t had time to photograph them.. mine are lighter in colour, translucent and have a single small hole at the top. Weird things.
HP, you have no time to photograph them? Are they going somewhere quickly? They are pretty slow!
pain master said:
HP, you have no time to photograph them? Are they going somewhere quickly? They are pretty slow!
lol, they will still be there tomorrow, but I did notice that as they age , they break up into a kind of frilled edged thing, very hard and rubbery ..as most are.. it’s facinating watching what they will do next. They are pretty much level with the soil so I’d have to scrape back a little soil and mulch to get a decent pic, and have the lens very close.
Happy Potter said:
pain master said:
HP, you have no time to photograph them? Are they going somewhere quickly? They are pretty slow!
lol, they will still be there tomorrow, but I did notice that as they age , they break up into a kind of frilled edged thing, very hard and rubbery ..as most are.. it’s facinating watching what they will do next. They are pretty much level with the soil so I’d have to scrape back a little soil and mulch to get a decent pic, and have the lens very close.
Indeed, despite not slipping over on my trek taking these photos, I still ended up with grubby knees from the photography…. ;)
‘tis a pity that there’s not many edible mushrooms here.
i remember the mushroom picking autumn days in childhood. was only a couple of mushrooms to avoid, and the rest were all good.
finally some shops here are carrying a few more mushroom kinds other than the button mushroom. the “swiss” mushroom is particularly good for bbq and other dishes, including barley and mushroom soup…a nice winter pickup.
thanks PM for sharing those wonderful shots. how did you get such nice lighting going?…“behind curain” flash setting?
I love your photos PM, and I think photographers , hobby or professional , are very special people who notice things most others don’t. Very ‘ aware of their surrounding’s’ sort :D
Hi aquarium, it is interesting what some locals do eat up here…
all shots taken with natural jungle lighting, the last few had some nice breaks in the canopy and hence why I took the snaps. I’m lucky, the DSLR I have has a good IS mode and this helps clarify the shots.
No flash required ;)
Happy Potter said:
I love your photos PM, and I think photographers , hobby or professional , are very special people who notice things most others don’t. Very ‘ aware of their surrounding’s’ sort :D
thanks HP, some of my PNG mates who come walking with me think I am a bit odd, scurrying around taking photos of mushrooms and stuff…..
As soon as i saw those colors i knew it was dslr. a couple of the first shots were a little too tight on the focus range (field of view), as the slightly raised mushroom edges weren’t in focus.
as an aside…before i had a dslr even, i had a play with a program that can stitch together automatically several shots at different focus lengths. so you end up with an extreme field of view with everything in super focus. some scientist person released it free.
there’s also other programs around for stitching together several exact same shots at daytime and sunrise/sunset. end up with high dynamic range.
anyway, keep up the good work. are you going to put together a coffee table photo book one day?
Happy Potter said:
I love your photos PM, and I think photographers , hobby or professional , are very special people who notice things most others don’t. Very ‘ aware of their surrounding’s’ sort :D
I second that, HP, PM’s photos are very special. Observation of nature at its best.
Well done again PM :)