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Just having a little more fun bracketing exposures.
(...or vice-versa)
Gunpowder River
Parkton, Maryland
October 16, 2018
Well if you are seeing this then you are privileged because you are either considered a family or friend. Just kidding..I finally got around cleaning up my contact list and sorting out my friends. If you are reading this and you are an enemy let me know I'll block you.
This is the dual flash bracket I ordered...there are many reasons for this purchase.
1. you can lower the power for faster recycle time
2. brighter...one strobe just one cut it for full body outdoors during the the harsh midday light
3. You can set the lights back further for wider angle shots.
4. burn the retinas of an unsuspecting mugger
I still need to order the 60" softlighter for this.
strobist: sb-800 in 15" alzo softbox, triggered by pocketwizards
Normally more bracket-like (see the other picture), this is what purplepore bracket looks like when growing on the underside of a fallen branch. It's almost resupinate, but even here you can see that it wants to curl away from the branch.
It should be holding a lifebuoy, but this bracket has created a convenient anchor point for these webs, beautifully highlighted by a morning of freezing fog.
Blushing Bracket / daedaleopsis confragosa. Cloud Wood, Leicestershire. 14/03/20.
'TOUGH OLD AGERS.'
Three Blushing Bracket fungi growing in a staggered, tiered group. These were the oldest of the nine fruiting bodies I found on a dead, fallen branch. Based on their rich, rusty red colour and thin blackened margins, I think these were old specimens that had probably been in situ for several years. They had the most amazing pitted and split surfaces which made them extremely tactile.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
Saw some fungi today and yesterday, its certainly been fresh the last few days, hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year
Leicaflex SL
50mm Summicron
Kodak Portra 160
Citrus Tract of Withlacoochee State Forest, FL
"So many of us!
So many of us!
We are shelves, we are
Tables, we are meek,
We are edible,
Nudgers and shovers
In spite of ourselves.
Our kind multiplies:
We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot’s in the door."
- Sylvia Plath
These woods are used by Birmingam University to assess Carbon Dioxide levels levels. Not this bit though.
Sorry folks we went to the woods again today. Lots more fungi photos to come.
Many of the trees have bands or spots painted on them, looks like they are being chopped down, lots of trees have already gone.
Norbury Junction Woods Staffordshire UK 17th November 2017
Sunlight is split in two by the departure signal at Belgrave on a sunny Spring morning. The smoke has difted over from 12A, parked in the platform behind shot.
This is a close-up photo of the underside of a bracket fungus. The image has been mirrored and copied twice to be symmetrical.
Bracket: 1
Category: Fury of the Elements
Opponent: Classical Bricks on MOCpages, Classical Bricks on Flickr
Situated at the foothills of the Waterberg Mountains in a private game reserve, is one of Africa’s hidden secrets. Whether taking a short break or a well-deserved holiday, BushTime at Mabula has it all. Situated at the foothills of the Waterberg mountains, within the 10,000-hectare Mabula Private Game Reserve, this bush resort offers prolific game which includes the “Big 5” and more than 300 recorded bird species.
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.
The Security Building is a historic site in downtown Miami, Florida. It is located at 117 Northeast 1st Avenue. On January 4, 1989, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The building has 16 floors with a height of 225 feet (69 m) and was built from 1926 to 1927.
The Dade County Security Company was organized in 1901 and moved to a nearby headquarters in 1923. By the mid-1920s the company needed a larger headquarters. In 1921, the Dade County Security Company had acquired the McKinnon Hotel which occupied a mid-block parcel on Northeast 1st Avenue and renamed it the Security Hotel. Dade Security had considered adding stories atop the hotel but opted in 1925 to raze the hotel and construct a new headquarters on the same site under the direction of architect Robert Greenfield.
Construction on the Security Building began in 1926. The building was known as the Security Building from its opening in 1927 until 1945. Upon opening, the first level and mezzanine were devoted to banking offices. The floors above provided 275 office suites and were reached by four "high speed" elevators.
The Security Building faces west onto NE 1st Avenue. It is located in mid-block with buildings on either side. Those buildings are considerably shorter than the Security Building. The building maintains a zero-foot (0 m) setback, and the entry doors open directly onto the sidewalk. There are no landscape features on the property. The building is composed of a main block parallel to the street, and a second block connected perpendicularly that extends to the east.
With only a 50-foot (15 m) frontage, the architect made a grand statement by creating an almost temple-like base, consisting of the first three stories. Engaged pilasters, that also frame the center bay, articulate the corners creating three distinct bays. Spandrels between the floors are bronze and feature relief ornament. The pilasters carry the entablature, with the name “Security Building” in incised letters. A dentilled molding ornaments the cornice that terminates this division of the building.
The fourth floor begins the transition to the high-rise portion of the building. Stone panels with a similar relief accent the corners and separate the bays. Above the windows of the fourth floor is another projecting element, a stringcourse that is ornamented with a guilloche pattern in relief.
Floors five through 13 continue the three bays with window arrangements that are grouped in pairs on each of the end bays, and are grouped in three in the center bay, emphasizing the importance of the center bay to the entire composition. The windows are a metal casement type.
Security Building (Miami) South and West Facades, top floors with mansard roof and cupola.
The 14th and 15th floors function as the base for the great mansard roof, which terminates the building. To balance the composition, the two floors are treated as if they were one by the use of a round arch at the 15th floor that is carried by the pilasters of the 14th floor, so that the two floors are visually united.
A bracketed cornice separates the building from the roof form that is so decidedly different from roof treatments in Miami during this period. A mansard roof is a double-pitched roof with a steep upper slope. The mansard roof was named for architect Francois Mansart (1598–1666). Mansart worked in the 17th century and introduced the roof form that extended attic space to provide additional usable area. The mansard roof is a character-defining feature of the Second Empire style that was named after Napoleon III, who took on major building projects in Paris during the 18th century.
The mansard roof of the Security Building is clad in copper and terminates in a series of antefixae. A series of arches containing windows and serving as dormers penetrates the roof. Bull's-eye windows are placed between the arched windows. An eight-sided cupola that extends from the center of the roof is fenestrated on each side with a multi-paned arched window. The dome of the cupola also is clad in copper.
The north and south ends of the building are not ornamented. The windows are a metal casement type. The quoining on the corners of the west elevation is repeated in the north and south elevations of the building. The extension to the east is flat-roofed and is terminated by a defined cornice. The majority of the wall surface contains windows that are either square or rectangular in shape. They contain metal casement windows.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Building_(Miami,_Florida)
miami-history.com/security-building-in-downtown-miami/
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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.
Polypores are a group of fungi that form fruiting bodies with pores or tubes on the underside (see Delimitation for exceptions). They are a morphological group of basidiomycetes like gilled mushrooms and hydnoid fungi, and not all polypores are closely related to each other. Polypores are also called bracket fungi, and their woody fruiting bodies are called conks.
Most polypores inhabit tree trunks or branches consuming the wood, but some soil-inhabiting species form mycorrhiza with trees. Polypores and their relatives corticioid fungi are the most important agents of wood decay. Thus, they play a very significant role in nutrient cycling and carbon dioxide production of forest ecosystems.
Over one thousand polypore species have been described to science,[1] but a large part of the diversity is still unknown even in relatively well-studied temperate areas. Polypores are much more diverse in old natural forests with abundant dead wood than in younger managed forests or plantations. Consequently, a number of species have declined drastically and are under threat of extinction due to logging and deforestation.
Polypores are used in traditional medicine, and they are actively studied for their medicinal value and various industrial applications. Several polypore species are serious pathogens of plantation trees and are major causes of timber spoilage.
source: wikipedia