My wife noticed these tiny spheres on a dead fern frond as she was trimming dead growth in the garden. The frond is quite small, 2-3 mm across. I clamped it and shot it inside (there was a drawer pull in the background). I believe these are the sporangia, or clusters of spores, of a Myoxymycetes slime mold. Haven't seen anything like this before...interesting...

I wonder just how long it has taken for the ocean tides to create this rock formation. The carved sweeping lines in the rock face look ancient and appear molded like the edges of a pie crust. This long exposure has captured a very calm ocean, and a hint of color in the clouds overhead.

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not a plant, not an animal and not a fungus

scrambled egg slime, flowers of tan or dog vomit slime mold

Gelbe Lohblüte oder Hexenbutter

[Fuligo septica]

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

lens review: www.aarondesigns.org/Laowa-65mm-f28-2x-2to1-SuperMacroLens/

Schimmelpilze

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

Taken with Canon FD 50mm F3.5 Macro, 1:2 macro.

Another quarantine walk around the neighborhood.

Curridabat, Costa Rica

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

Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera left. Triggered by Cybersync.

I developed a film taken 10 years ago today.

There is mold on the film.

Agfa apx400 (100ft roll film)

Rodinal (10 years old) 1+50 (rotation agitation)

21 minutes

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

lens review: www.aarondesigns.org/Laowa-65mm-f28-2x-2to1-SuperMacroLens/

abandoned Inn and Hotel

I developed a film taken 10 years ago today.

There is mold on the film.

Agfa apx400 (100ft roll film)

Rodinal (10 years old) 1+50 (rotation agitation)

21 minutes

captured in the abandoned Preventorio Rocco. (2015)

Arcyria ferruginea on pine

I tried to find micro LEGO tanks like these but I had no luck. Surely, they have been made like this before. If you know where they have been made before let me know and I'll update this.

Interestingly, some of the epaulettes fit nicely and some are too small. Not sure if the mold was changed at some point but the old ones fit better.

Was fascinated to see how this old slime mold had ended up looking like miniature cups! With an accompanying springtail!

Upton Magna - Shropshire

Oak tree, Withlacoochee State Forest, Citrus County, Fl

36" x 36"

Acrylic and collage on canvas

The companion piece to "the nocturne".

Fascinating find. Slime mold, jelly fungus on Cherry Tree in our garden

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

lens review: www.aarondesigns.org/Laowa-65mm-f28-2x-2to1-SuperMacroLens/

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Romsdalen, Norway, a very gray day in July this summer.

On a large rotting conifer log in the Anacortes Community Forest Lands. Taken of a bit of the side of the log adjacent to the end with its mass of fruiting slime mold -- better light and accessibility.

Was focus shifted (using in camera app) and combined using Zerene Stacker.

At about 1:1.2.

shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a zhongyi 20mm f/2.0 4-4.5x super macro lens

Pin Mold on a decomposing spent Hibiscus Flower.