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This year I found a rather large crop of beautiful mushrooms growing under a pair of fairly young oak trees. The colors were outstanding and the groups of fruiting bodies nicely placed.
Last year I posted a number of mushroom images with words from Alice In Wonderland. I still feel those words apply.
There were a few low clouds in lower atmosphere layers therefore the air pollution rose quite high. Nevertheless the milky way was peaking out. The tree was lighted by a small LED flashlight.
Before the big beautiful steam locomotive starts, they clear the cylinders of water. To do this, they blow steam through the system. In fact, the volunteers who were helping with the event strongly urged all of us (particularly we photographers who have little to no sense) to stand back. The farther back we stood, the stronger the blow the engineer could make. Well, it looks like we stood back far enough, eh? :-)
Like the previous weekend, the day I photographed this part of the series was very gray with flat lighting. I like using tone-mapping to bring out the various micro-contrast tones that would otherwise be hidden from view.
Blanding, Utah.
A little to the right are too many ugly houses, a little to the left is direct sunlight from its original source, so I tilted portrait angle and took this narrow view of what is the Pueblo at the Edge of the Cedars.
This mushroom was so tiny that I had to max out the magnification of my macro lens. It is dwarfed by the moss sprouting next to it, which itself is very tiny.
If ever man wanted a mate, here is culture's best offering. Plastic. Non-emotional. Cold. Aloof. Beautiful, even if in a sinister, evil way.
Thank you, Corporate Amerika, for pointing the way to h*ll!
Qtpfsgui 1.8.12 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Fattal
Parameters:
Alpha: 1.3
Beta: 0.8
Color Saturation: 0.7
Noise Reduction: 0.03
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PreGamma: 1