Fungi of beechwood: The Lumpy Bracket (Trametes gibbose) growing on live beech tree (Fagus sylvatica). It was quite high up and this is the best top view I could manage. I noticed it during my last visit to the woods couple weeks before but didn’t have time to stop and get a closer look. Lansdown, Bath, BANES, England, U.K.

I try to give ID where possible but often it is not an easy task in the world of fungi without special examination, and I am not a mycologist. So, if you feel that ID is incorrect, please do correct.

Screw through the bracket, 3/4 inch frame or 19mm square frame.

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Spot the two birds :)

For a change, this is a new (outside!) photo, taken just a few days ago at the wonderful Britzer Garten, one of Berlin's biggest and most beautiful public parks (please check my album for more "Britz bliss", if you like).

For better dynamic range, I've used exposure bracketing (three images), pre-processed the images in DXO PhotoLab (sharpness and DeepPrime denoising only), from which I directly went into HDR Efex Pro to combine the images. I'm trying to get away from the annual Adobe subscription, and combining images from an exposure bracketing series in HDR Efex instead of Lightroom is one step into that direction. Unfortunately, whenever I think I can finally leave Adobe behind for good they come up with improvements such as the new "supersize" function (now also available in LR), a ton of new presets for LR, and other interesting stuff (and I'm still used to the LR/PS workflow, and the layers in PS). Well, maybe I'll be ready next year ;)

Extra sliding was done in Color Efex, where I added some "Brilliance and Warmth" and a tiny bit of "Contrast Color Range".

Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, stay safe and have a nice week ahead!

Taken on our few days in South Yorkshire

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Darmstadt - Oberfeld

Even on rainy days there are still interesting objects to photograph.

Can anyone identify this bracket fungus? It's on a dead spruce stump.

Great egret Miami, Florida, USA.

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Yet another visit to the Crossrail bridge, Canary Wharf. It's not easy finding a different angle on this well-photographed location.

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Shipwreck Reflected, Fleetwood, Lancashire

I LOVE these old shipwrecks near the Marsh Wet Llands at Fleetwood on the Wyre Estuary. This is one of two metal bodied boats (the others are wooden and are in various states of decay).

This was shot at the end of Feb 2021 during quite a high tide which allows for this boat in particular to be completely surrounded by the incoming tide. One word of warning though, this area is full of deep gullies filled with gloopy mud. You cannot see them during a high tide as they are under water so if you are going to visit during a high tide, arrive a good while beforehand and study the layout of the area. You might just be grateful once the water starts filling up.

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HDR from 7 exposures. Made with Bracketeer and Photoshop Elements 6.

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Bitter Bracket - Postia stiptica Lower (fertile) surface with tubes and pores; watery droplets are exuded mainly from margin region and from the pores. Very bitter taste. It may turn ochre-brown when old. Usually on felled trunks and large fallen branches of conifers; very occasionally on the timber of hardwood trees.

6 focus points each at 3 bracketed exposures, stack in Photoshop.

Aquilegia (common names: granny's bonnet or columbine) is a genus of about 60-70 species of perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher altitudes throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petals of their flowers. The genus name Aquilegia is derived from the Latin word for eagle (aquila), because the shape of the flower petals, which are said to resemble an eagle's claw. The common name "columbine" comes from the Latin for "dove", due to the resemblance of the inverted flower to five doves clustered together. The Colorado Blue Columbine (A. caerulea) is the official state flower of Colorado. Large numbers of hybrids are available for the garden, since the European A. vulgaris was hybridized with other European and North American varieties. Aquilegia species are very interfertile, and will self-sow. Some varieties are short-lived so are better treated as biennials. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquilegia

Darmstadt - Vorgarten

From my archives.

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Wat Tyler Country Park

Usually in woodland I try to eliminate as the sky or as much of it from the frame. The obvious reason for this is that inevitability the sky, no mater what the day is like will blow out the highlights, as the dynamic range is too much. Sometimes to capture a scene you need to include a big lump of sky. You can’t really use a ND grad as it will darken the intruding branches and foliage, so you need to either bracket the scene or reduce the exposure. Given the great DR latitude of our modern camera more often than not from a 3 frame bracket I only use 2 or in the end go with the darkest one.

B&P RISI heads North through the Mt. Jewett control point in Mt. Jewett, PA.

Was glad to finally be able to photograph these signals in clouds, as under normal operating times, this shot would be completely backlit,

Seen at Eves Valley Tasman NZ

As seen Nov. 1st.

Relocated this Nov. 13 and its striking white edge was dark

The wood it is on is only 3.5 - 4" in diameter.

my thoughts on the laowa 65mm:

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shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a venus optics laowa 65mm f/2.8 2x macro lens

On a log on the trial to Pam's Grotto

Growing on a fallen tree

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A sunset at Rydal Water which, eventually, lit up the sky.

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Canon EF16-35 f4

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on a tree in Abbey Park, Pershore

A St Joe local works west past the bracket at Riverside about four miles west of Cincy.

NS 127 is southbound on Nº2 Track by Spring at Atlanta, Georgia with CBFX SD60M 6023 followed by a NS C44-9W and LTEX SD60M in October 2018.

Fruiting Body

The birch polypore only grows on Birch trees. This leathery bracket fungus has a rounded, coffee-coloured cap. This particular specimen was approximately 30cm across

Oakview Dr. Northwest Branch Creek, MD