There is a great variety of fungi these days, here in my area ...
... especially in the dense, humid forests ...
... the weather is still warm ... around noon it feels like summer ... the sea is still good to jump in and swim ... but the nights are fresh and longer, mornings bring mist and dew and in the coastal forests ...
... the fungi invasion is in progress ...
... in this post ... I'm trying :) to kind of paint a picture ...
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... using photographs.
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... I can't give you ...
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... I'm not much of a fungi expert ...
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... just a guy obsessed with these fabulous ...
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The same fungi ... not only the same species ... but literally the same one ...
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A tiny violet mushroom ...
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... with some round fungi blurred in the background ...
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... and here ...
... a more focused look at those round shapes.
Another, similar species ...
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A coral shape in the moss.
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A very elegant little thing in the fallen leaves.
Some other coral shapes.
And the strange thing ...
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Some other ...
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... unidentified ...
... little fungi ...
... these last one growing on some dissolving mushroom ...
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( As always in these posts on Steemit, all the photographs are my work )
Stunning...nature has an imagination, doesn' t it?
Reminds me of some creations I've seen (pictures, not in person) in haute cuisine restaurants. An example: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-sea-devil-in-green-rice-on-safran-risotto-food-haute-cuisine-20946499.html
Perhaps the chefs in these restaurants haunt fungus gardens for inspiration :)
:) It seems so ... things you see in nature are rarely dull. When I take a better and deeper look at things, the real world looks like a fantasy or a Syfy creation. Hehehe very fungi like dish, maybe some harmless or even beneficial fungal infection can push the imagination and creativity of the chef in that direction :D
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Amazing collection... 😮
You are indeed blessed with such variety and you did well with the photographic detailing and exploration!!
Oh man.. you know when you post mushrooms like that I want to hide...
Amazing photos! All of them!
:) Thanks
Beautiful!!
Thanks :)
Those are so beautiful! I am always amazed by the variety of mushrooms in your neighborhood. We have a lot around here, but nothing like yours!
:) Cool ... I thought that variety here is nothing special and that there is more elsewhere.
I think the same but backwards! I guess every place on earth has its own special collection. It's fun to get to see them here, since I can't afford to travel.
Absolutely. No place has everything, and everywhere is something special. I'm also traveling only here in the neighborhood and on the Internet :)
Wow nice variety, i wonder what that false morel looking shroom is.
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I think I found it once in a fungi guide book ... but now I don't remember what it was ... and I don't have that book ... It got lost some years ago ...
This absolutely sensational collection! Stunning macro shots!
This absolutely
Sensational collection!
Stunning macro shots!
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Thanks :)
Great work with the light!
Did you shoot mushrooms in the forest at night? They still need to be found. Or did you look for them during the day and check the boxes? :-)
:) I photographed during the day ... but on a cloudy autumn day, in the dense forest is half dark ... actually even on a sunny day is pretty shady on the forest floor ...so it is easy to make it look like night ... I used two external flashes for the various light arrangements, portraiting the mushrooms like people.
I agree that there are always deep shadows in the forest and small mushrooms do not like direct sun. But the flash should illuminate not only the mushroom itself. How did you regulate this?
Here I made a dark background ... there is clearly not enough extra light. I love the forest and love to shoot in the forest. I want to make several light sources on diodes from the battery for macro sessions. But these are only plans so far
The flash was never direct, it was above, slightly behind or lateral ... or combination because there were 2 flashes ... that way with certain exposure the background can be dark even in the middle of a bright day ... here ad example ...
... this was in the middle of the day on the open meadow ... this was 1/500 sec ...f/14 ... ISO 100 ... and those flashes ... camera cannon eos350, lens 100 mm macro
I realized that a clamped aperture, fast shutter speed make the night, and the flash highlights the subject. I had not thought of such a method before. Thanks, I have to try. That's just the appearance of flashes yet. I will buy. What kind of flash do you use?
Right now :) just the built-in flash of my compact camera ... back then, 10 years ago when I made those photographs ... I was using Canon 430EX II Flash ... and sometimes Canon Mr-14ex macro ring lite ... but I never mounted this ring on the lens, I was always shooting with the ring in one and the camera in another hand, so I could go with the light above and lateral to things ...
Yes, light that creates shadows is more interesting than light without shadows. Now I intend to make myself several light sources on diodes and a battery. So far, these are only intentions. But I will do it eventually. I have an A72M without a built-in flash. Sometimes the flash is not enough.
I don't know all the options available today ... but surely there is a lot more and for better prices that then ... I don't follow much this gear development for DSLRs because I use a small camera now ... so I have no good advice about that
You have already given good advice. I see one of the ways I’ll go. Thank :-)