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the visible drops of water on the surface of the mushroom is a result of 'guttation', a term used in botany to describe the process by which plants excrete excess water.
Taken at Chase Water, Staffordshire.
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Probably Trametes versicolor, Turkeytail. Seen on a dog walk in Coed Bryntovey, site of the old Little Mill brickworks.
Turkey Tail Fungus (Trametes versicolor)
It's always refreshing to find something this colorful in the
woods during the cold days of late autumn.
Particularly, when everything else is either dead or dying.
Patapsco State Park
Howard County, Maryland
December 5, 2018
The full write up for this project is on my blog.
I now have photos of my v.2 bracket up here: www.flickr.com/photos/kangster/sets/72157621728749160/. The new version is not as compact but can take full advantage of E-TTL and auto focus assist.
This beautifully preserved Victorian home in San Francisco is a vibrant example of the city’s architectural heritage. Painted in deep blue, with ornate accents of gold, red, and green, this residence is a masterclass in Victorian craftsmanship. The intricate detailing around the windows and cornices reveals the delicate handwork of the era, with floral motifs and decorative molding that harken back to the late 19th century.
The curved bay window on the left side of the house is an iconic feature of San Francisco’s Victorians, allowing natural light to flood the interior while creating a visual centerpiece for the façade. The overhanging cornice, adorned with intricate brackets and a balustrade, adds to the home’s grandeur. The combination of colors—blue, gold, green, and red—creates a striking visual contrast against the clear sky, emphasizing the home’s opulence and meticulous restoration.
Situated on a quiet, tree-lined street, the home’s front garden is framed by a pair of lush green trees, adding to the vibrant color palette of the setting. Cars parked on the street reflect the modern-day life of the neighborhood, while the historic charm of the house remains untouched. From the elaborately decorated entranceway to the precision of the roof’s shingles, this house is a stunning example of San Francisco’s iconic Victorian style.
Whether you’re an architecture enthusiast or a casual passerby, this house invites you to appreciate the grandeur of a bygone era, perfectly blended with the vibrancy of the city today.
Bracket fungus - Polyporales, perhaps a Ganoderma?
Reference
- Dawson and Lucas, Nature Guide to the New Zealand Forest (Godwit/Random House, 2000), p. 244 (photo of Ganoderma applanatum)
(iNat uploads start here 3/4/24.)
This fungus is growing happily on the side of a tree stump, inches from a stone wall, where it enjoys shade, moisture, and privacy. I found it anyway.
Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Vézelay | | February 28, 2016 | Canon EOS 5D Mark III | ¹⁄₁₆₀ sec at f/4.0 2000
Ex #325 Second post in one day....
This has been hanging around in my to go file for a while. Not a good flick pic but here it is !
It's a bracketed HDR taken with my 20mm lens using a grad filter to stop the bleed of backlight.
I may look up it’s name if i get time...
After visiting my favourite pie shop in Lytham I nipped over to Lytham Hall woods to look for fungi. Although a few were still intact some had been kicked down and ruined especially the bright red easy to spot fly algarics.
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Bracket fungi, or shelf fungi, are among the many groups of fungi that compose the division Basidiomycota. Characteristically, they produce shelf- or bracket-shaped or occasionally circular fruiting bodies called conks that lie in a close planar grouping of separate or interconnected horizontal rows. Brackets can range from only a single row of a few caps, to dozens of rows of caps that can weigh several hundred pounds. They are mainly found on trees (living and dead) and coarse woody debris, and may resemble mushrooms. Some form annual fruiting bodies while others are perennial and grow larger year after year. Bracket fungi are typically tough and sturdy and produce their spores, called basidiospores, within the pores that typically make up the undersurface.
The KP has a useful shooting mode called 'Depth of Field Bracketing'. It allows for a burst of 3 shots in quick succession at varying apertures whilst keeping exposure the same (so it adjusts ISO or shutter speed, your choice). You can adjust it either way so that your first shot is stopped down and moving to wider open apertures or vice versa, and you can adjust the step gain between each shot.
This can be a really useful feature as perhaps you fancy trying to nail a f1.8 shot on something tricky, but suffer a small amount of back soft focus, then the subsequent stopped down shots can come to your rescue (albeit with slower shutter speeds or more grain).
You can also get creative like I did here in this shot by stacking and combining frames. This shot here pictured above is mainly f1.8 (focus was on the hanging light) but in the original f1.8 shot the green edging leaf decoration thing is also very out of focus but I quite liked the stopped down versions of that part of the image and thus I was able to use the more stopped down frames to bring the leaf decoration into focus on the f1.8 shot whilst maintaining nice centre bokeh rather than a harder stopped down blur.
I'll add the other frames and varying apertures in the comments to show.