Yet more mushrooms and fungi from my hike on the Sand Hills Quiet area.
rain on mushroom.
I've now taken so many photographs “for reference” that I'm starting to play a bit, choosing pix with tiny sections in focus. Nothing that hasn't been done before, by many other, more gifted photographers, but kind of an interesting illustration of the ‘make lots’ theory—eventually, you just start playing with the medium out of sheer boredom.
light filtering through the gills of a mushroom
Also, I suspect serious photographers of this sort of subject matter take a lot of effort ‘editing’ their scenes to remove dead grass strands, dirt on the subject, etc. I sometimes shove a blade of grass out of the way, but I didn't have time for that kind of futzing around. It also sort of feels like cheating; though if the given blade of grass is screwing up the autofocus, it has to move:)
Evidently amanita come in yellow, as well as red. That's my best guess, anyway.
Though if I were doing this sort of photography professionally, I think I'd carry a pair of tiny shears. Mebbe some tweezers....Because there is always grass.
rain on mushroom.
There's a reason photographers risk their equipment in wet conditions: photography is all about light, and nothing transforms it so effectively as water:)
Yes, I know mushrooms are fruiting bodies of fungi kingdom organisms, but since they don't wander around, they get shoved in with the plants.
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