Plants & Fungi
Our camera club had planned a trip to an ancient deciduous forest sometime ago that was to take place this weekend. The goal was to photograph toadstools and/or fungi, which should be available in great numbers and varieties. Much to our surprise, most trees still featured green leaves instead of the explosion of warm hues we had […]
Over the last few weeks, I found lots and lots of toadstools and fungi. They were everywhere and hard to be missed. Last weekend, I finally decided to focus my attention on the fungi and so I went to my favorite nearby fungal forest. You can imagine I was unhappily surprised when it appeared that […]
An abnormal silence in the blogosphere from my side, due to a short vacation break with the family in a pieceful cottage with no internet connection. Here’s a catch-up (and backdated) post. Just before setting off for the holiday, I went to a nature reserve close to home which is wellknown for its large numbers […]
Arguably the prettiest of the toadstools to be found in the beech forest must be the Porcelain Fungus. The hoods are very pretty and shiny (hence their name), the underside of the hood is even more beautiful and a treat to the avid macro photographer. I had been looking for these ‘beech babes’ in my […]
Yes, another weekend of fungal photography. With the heavy rains of the last days, fungi and toadstools are popping up virtually everywhere. Funny thing is that I went to local forests to photograph them, when today I found out that we have several very pretty fungi in our own little city garden. About two years […]
Although it is still very dry and the heavy autumnal rains are yet to come, in several local forests it is hard not to find any fungi and toadstools. I went to a mixed beech and oak forest on Friday, and a mostly coniferous forest on Saturday. Both yielded huge amounts of fungi, but both […]