More stink
These things are a fascinating study. Since youth, I've had a strictly non-expert interest in natural things and have always kept my eyes open for insects, birds, plants and other natural phenomena. I'd read of the Common Stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus) but, in almost a lifetime of observation, had found it anything but common. I'd never seen one until this year. But, since seeing my first a few weeks ago (see "Funny pong", a few places back in this photostream), I've come across half a dozen. Has this been a "glut" year, or have I somehow become "attuned" to seeing them since encountering my first? Something similar happened in the case of the Hummingbird Hawk Moth in the summer of 2015.
Light levels were so poor down on the forest floor on a dismal autumn afternoon, that I couldn't get a reading from my light meter. I positioned the camera on my homemade bean bag (a Bristol Omnibus Co. chute safe bag filled with chick peas) and compensated as best I could for twin-lens-reflex parallax error. I was going to use B and, for maximum possible depth-of-field, and intended to give it about three seconds. I was on Kodak Ektar ...100ASA. I reached for my cable release. There was none. I must have left it on the ground somewhere during a previous toadstooling expedition a few days before. So I finally took this with a one-second exposure, enlarging the aperture to f8, using my Autoknips clockwork self-timer ...seldom used but invaluable when necessary. I've bought a new cable release.
More stink
These things are a fascinating study. Since youth, I've had a strictly non-expert interest in natural things and have always kept my eyes open for insects, birds, plants and other natural phenomena. I'd read of the Common Stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus) but, in almost a lifetime of observation, had found it anything but common. I'd never seen one until this year. But, since seeing my first a few weeks ago (see "Funny pong", a few places back in this photostream), I've come across half a dozen. Has this been a "glut" year, or have I somehow become "attuned" to seeing them since encountering my first? Something similar happened in the case of the Hummingbird Hawk Moth in the summer of 2015.
Light levels were so poor down on the forest floor on a dismal autumn afternoon, that I couldn't get a reading from my light meter. I positioned the camera on my homemade bean bag (a Bristol Omnibus Co. chute safe bag filled with chick peas) and compensated as best I could for twin-lens-reflex parallax error. I was going to use B and, for maximum possible depth-of-field, and intended to give it about three seconds. I was on Kodak Ektar ...100ASA. I reached for my cable release. There was none. I must have left it on the ground somewhere during a previous toadstooling expedition a few days before. So I finally took this with a one-second exposure, enlarging the aperture to f8, using my Autoknips clockwork self-timer ...seldom used but invaluable when necessary. I've bought a new cable release.