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Metered exposure -2EV
Not true bracketing as I only decreased the exposures, experience has taught that there is not usually an advantage to increasing exposure in these situations.
Bracket fungi on a dead tree in Lauerholz (Lauen wood), Hanseatic City Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Bracket fungi growing on the face of a peachleaf willow (Salix amygdaloides) tree trunk.
Maple Grove, Minnesota
April 23, 2011
Almost all the fungi in this group live by eating wood. On the debit side they are the principal source of damage to timber; but on the credit side they can claim to be vital to the well-being of forests and woods—which would clog up completely if these fungi were not present to devour fallen logs and branches etc. The very few which are counted as edible provide a means for human beings to eat wood at one remove.
We poked tiny holes in the wall to guide the tape. I learned this in an elementary school art class.
This nature's patterns malarkey is harder than you think, especially fungi, which seem very hard to expose correctly.
by Cory Zanker
Fungi are an important part of ecosystem nutrient cycles. These bracket fungi growing on the side of a tree are the fruiting structures of a basidiomycete. They receive their
nutrients through their hyphae, which invade and decay the tree trunk.
Photographing fungi and lichen almost invariably involves crawling around the forest floor over and around wet leaves, fallen logs, or tree stumps, and the subject of the photograph is almost always shot from above. However, in this case I got lucky and found some lovely bracket fungi high up on the trunk of a still-living tree. This afforded a much different view and, in particular, allowed me to photograph the bracket structure after which the common name of this family of fungi is derived.