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Growing on the side of a fallen and decaying log, this Smokey Bracket Fungus forms an abstract covering across the bark.
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.
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
Leatherhead Railway Station
Leatherhead Station opened on March 11, 1867 and was designed by Charles Henry Driver – an important Victoria architect, expert in the early use of decorative ornamental ironwork. Fine examples can be seen in the slender columns and ornamental brackets on the station canopy. The Leatherhead to Dorking railway and associated infrastructure is rather special as we will see later on the trail.
From Leatherhead station you can take trains to Dorking, Epsom, Guildford, Wimbledon, London Victoria, London Waterloo
This is a bracket fungus growing on a large Ash tree and it's the 2nd year that I've noticed it.
In it's early stages it's an acidic yellow gelatinous ball shape oozing liquid.
I've tried to identify it and it would appear to be a Shaggy Bracket, or Ionotus hispidus (source: www.first-nature.com/fungi/inonotus-hispidus.php)
It's described as a bracket fungus that is found mostly on Ash and Apple and leads to white rot decay in the tree.
Some exceptional medicinal benefits though are attributed to this mushroom as a remedy to cancer, diabetes and stomach ailments and the lowering of blood glucose levels.
If anyone can confirm this identification I'd be very grateful.
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CFE FWCH has entered IHB rails at Ivanhoe with CWR from Columbia City. The signal brackets in the background are some of the last of its kind in the entire region.
Today I sifted through photos from the first half of 2020 that got passed over. This image was posted to Flickr on Oct. 25, 2020.
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Fomitopsis betulina (previously Piptoporus betulinus), commonly known as the birch polypore, birch bracket, or razor strop, is a common bracket fungus and, as the name suggests, grows almost exclusively on birch trees. The brackets burst out from the bark of the tree, and these fruit bodies can last for more than a year.
another version of a cityscape from screws and staples on a mirror. I added a little Adamski effect to the reflection on this one.
Focus Bracketed 25 shots @ 200mm
(280/365) I'm fairly sure this is a Southern Bracket fungus "Ganoderma Australe". There were several growing in tiers on a mature Beech tree in the lane behind Kanturk Castle. The fruit body was about 7 inches across & the Ivy leaves are covered in a dusting of brown spores. For 115 pictures in 2015 #63 Fungi
BNSF 6322 brings up the rear of the UCHELGS Herzog ballast train, as they dump ballast between French and Levy, NM. Bracketing the power are three former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe semaphore signals at WSS Colmor. These blades may be from the early 20th century, but they faithfully continue to perform their duty protecting trains on the TWC portion of the Raton Subdivision.
Taken at Fradley Nature Centre, Staffordshire.
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Not sure of the ID of this species? Taken at the JFK Arboretum. See photo (2) for close up detail of the underside.
Likely a new dryad's saddle, Polyporus squamosus
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It was a beautiful sight like nature's art growing in our old tree stump.
Bracket fungi cause decay and rot in the heartwood of trees and produce bracket-shaped fruiting bodies on the trunk or main branches. These fungi usually lead to the weakening and eventual breakage or fall of affected trees. Source: www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=98
3x5 2,0-EV-bracketed pics stacked via Photomatix, then Pano built by Lr.
Photomatix Preset "Frankfurt twilight 5"
adapted to "Brightness = 0,0"
sharpening 3
contrast 0
I am investing a great part of my domestic quarantine in rummaging through my archives to unearth some forgotten, hopefully worthwhile shot to process. When this bracketing resurfaced from a stray nook of my hard disk, it struck some chords deep in my soul (most assuredly my brain was somehow performing an on-the-fly processing of those rather flattish, unassuming untouched RAW files). For a fleeting, precious moment I felt strongly the heartwarming sensation to be free to hug and cuddle again my wife, Laura, albeit at some indefinite time when Covid-19 will allow us to relish such an invaluable moment. Please do not ask me why on Earth this specific scene stirred this specific emotion inside me, so I will not be forced to admit that I have not the faintest idea. Rather, allow yourself the freedom to feel whatever emotion this scene will stir in your soul. I have got my own gift. I hope that this picture will gift you with the emotion you need most.
This picture comes from a sunrise session at the beautiful meanders of the river Adda, just a handful kilometers downstream the Eastern arm of Lake Como, dating from April 2016. That morning I arrived at the location a lot earlier than the earliest hints of dawn, so I took shooting the river by night - admittedly a whole bunch of utterly worthless bracketings, at least until proven otherwise (never say never). And I did a thing I do only in exceedingly rare occasions: I raised my sensor gain to a maddening 640 ISO. Of course, being used to shoot at a constant 100 ISO, I foolishly forgot to restore the usual setting as the light was growing and took my precious exposure bracketings at such high ISO till 8:00 AM. As a result of this sloppy attitude I had to fight a monster amount of chroma noise (I viscerally hate it)*. I found no way to get decently rid of that noise by using the rich armoury of denoising tools offered by Darktable - quite possibly because of my qualified failure to set them properly in such a demanding situation. Luckily, by mere trial and error, I got an almost decent denoising using DFine 2 and blending the denoised images with the original ones by the LCh Lightness mode (hope that my memory is not deceiving me); this, rather suprisingly, allowed me to retain most of the details while taking the greatest possible advantage of the denoising itself.
Incidentally, this picture has a closely related fellow image in my photostream, Awakenings: the same location, the same morning, just taken some 10 minutes after this one, some 20 meters downstream - ah, and one of the handful of bracketings of that session taken at 100 ISO, after I realized my mistake ;-)
* I am afraid I am being a bit unfair here, because the worthy sensor of my Nikon D5100 is quite less noisy than those of many other APS-x sensor cameras (and the in-camera management of thermal noise on long exposures is really good). The problem is, the less light you get from your subject, the more noise you get in the sensor data, the ISO gain magnifying an unfavourable signal-to-noise ratio. Of course an early, partly cloudy morning shooting session neatly falls into that sort of context.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4 and a selective bit of Orton effect as a final garnish to get the desired ambiance. RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising has been a vexing issue; I got the best results by courtesy of good old DFine 2 and the Gimp.
On a dead tree stump at the edge of the forest two small intriguingly coloured and textured brackets - which I am unable to identify more accurately.
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Trametes versicolor – also known as Coriolus versicolor and Polyporus versicolor – is a common polypore mushroom found throughout the world. Meaning 'of several colours', versicolor reliably describes this fungus that displays different colors. For example, because its shape and multiple colors are similar to those of a wild turkey, T. versicolor is commonly called turkey tail.