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Shot with Fuji X-M1 and Vivitar 24mm f/2.8 M42 lens on screw-mount to Alpa mount adapter paired to a metabones Speed Booster adapter in Alpa mount to Fuji-X mount.
Italian Tree Cricket
(Oecanthus pellucens)
Jardín Botánico Hoya de Pedraza,
Sierra Nevada,
Granada,
Spain
A tree on top of the Clifton Observatory hill, not far from the Clifton Suspension Bridge, in Bristol.
Pretty much SOOC, except adjusted contrast before converting from RAW to JPEG.
"Ni yo ni ningún otro puede andar por ti ese camino,
Eres tú quien debe andarlo."
Walt Whitman "Canto a mí mismo".
Played around with the macro and the christmas tree. Feel free to use under the Creative Commons license on the pictures.
Chileno Valley Road, just southwest of Petaluma.
Rescued from the cutting room floor when cleaning out my computer memory. These photos previously unprocessed or reprocessed with LR4.
Jumping from the lower reaches of the Yarra River in Melbourne to much closer to the source of the river, this is the Yarra at Warburton. Warburton is a pleasant small town by the Yarra Ranges National Park; the latter cradling the headwaters of the Yarra River, 242km from where it empties into Port Phillip Bay in Melbourne.
The Yarra Ranges National Park features extensive stands of mountain ash - the very tall eucalypt whose base is pictured here, along with tree ferns and patches of remnant rainforest.
The 'mist' in this picture is actually smoke from the many fires burning at the time I took this photo in February 2014.
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
-- Salma Hayek
(1 in a multiple picture album)
I'm standing in Tuolumne Meadow and shooting to the north over the forest. Only a tiny bit of winter's snow remains at the edge of the trees but up there on the peaks it is still deep.
Fall is great and all. There's nothing to do though. Plenty of great photo oppos but rain goes along with this type of weather. maybe I should stop being so negative :D
Lactarius blennius (Fr.: Fr.) Fr., syn.: Lactarius viridis (Schrader) Quel.
Beech milkcap, Slimy milkcap DE: Graugrüner Milchling
Slo.: bukova mlečnica
Dat.: Oct. 6. 2017
Lat.: 46.36141 Long.: 13.69944
Code: Bot_1093/2017_DSC9404
Habitat: Mixed wood, Fagus sylvatica dominant, Picea abies scattered; slightly inclined mountain slope, southeast aspect; calcareous, colluvial, shallow ground; relatively warm and dry place; partly protected from direct rain by tree canopies; average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 6 - 9 deg C, elevation 665 m (2.180 feet), alpine phytogeographical region.
Substratum: forest soil, Fagus sylvatica leaf litter.
Place: Lower Trenta valley, right bank of river Soča; between villages Soča and Trenta; near the trail to settlement Na skalah, East Julian Alps, Posočje, Slovenia EC.
Comments: Lactarius blennius is not showy mushroom. It is of pale, grayish, greenish, brownish colors, which are in addition quite variable. The species is common and keeps with Fagus sylvatica (in mycorrhizal relation) in almost the whole region there this tree thrives.
Experts are able to resolve two varieties of this species: Lactarius blennius var. blennius and Lactarius blennius var. fluens. I was unable to assign this find to one of them. Following the key of Section 6 of Lactarius (Ref.: 2, p383) this should be Lactarius blennius var. blennius based on piled dimension (3 - 7 cm for var. blennius contrary to 5 - 12 cm for var. fluens) or Lactarius blennius var. fluens based on strong production of milk (even in quite dry state!). Also variable hut color speaks for this variety. On the other hand, the absence of lighter, almost whitish hut edge speaks in favor of the first option. The only reliable microscopic trait (Ref.:8) - thickness of ixocutis - hasn't be used because of quite dry fruitbodies. Also, if one reads the description of both varieties in Ref. 9 the text is almost identical and the associated drawings definitely are such. Too hard a problem for me.
Description of the find: six or seven pilei present in an area of about 4 x 3 m; pilei diameter 4.5 - 7 cm, surface almost dry, only slightly sticky (found after a long period of dry weather) but leaf debris firmly stuck to the hut surface speaking in favor of presence of a distinctive ixocutis; trama and gills of about the same thickness; milk instant, abundant, white, after a longer time, when almost dry, it becomes greenish-gray; gills bruise slowly and mildly darken to brownish, otherwise the fruitbodies do not discolor when handled; stipe 3.5 - 4.6 cm long, 9 to 12 mm in diameter; only minutely sticky; smell mild, pleasant, on fruits(?); taste first mild then distinctly burning but not very strongly; milk of the same taste; SP abundant, light beige with slight yellow tint, oac851.
Spores with coarse ridges. Dimensions: (6,5) 7,1 - 8,2 (8,5) x (5,9) 6 - 6,8 (7,1) microns; Q = (1) 1,1 - 1,2 (1,4); N = 35; Me = 7,6 x 6,5 microns; Qe = 1,2; Olympus CH20, NEA 100x/1.25, magnification 1.000 x, oil (spores); in water, spore ornamentation in Melzer, fresh material. AmScope MA500 digital camera.
Herbarium: Mycotheca and lichen herbarium (LJU-Li) of Slovenian Forestry Institute, Večna pot 2, Ljubljana, Index Herbariorum LJF
Ref.:
(1) J. Breitenbach, F. Kraenzlin, Eds., Fungi of Switzerland, Vol.6. Verlag Mykologia (2005), p 50.
(2) G.J. Krieglsteiner (Hrsg.), Die Grosspilze Baden-Württembergs, Band 2., Ulmer (2000), p 387.
(3) M. Bon, Parey's Buch der Pilze, Kosmos (2005), p 86.
(4) L. Hagar, Ottova Encyklopedia Húb, Ottova Nakladatelstvi, Praha (2015) (in Slovakian), p 424.
(5) R. Lueder, Grundkurs Pilzbestimmung, Quelle & Meyer (2008), p 196.
(6) R.M. Daehncke, 1200 Pilze in Farbfotos, AT Verlag (2009), p 958.
(7) R. Phillips, Mushrooms, Macmillan (2006), p 56.
(8) J. Heilmann-Clausen, A. Verbeken, J. Vesterholt, The genus Lactarius, Fungi of Northern Europe Vol.2. (1998), p 287 S.
(9) S. Buczacki, Collins Fungi Guide, Collins (2012), p 288.
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Just been looking at photos on my old computer thought this was worth transffering, originally taken with my little Fuji camera
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This photo of Brownie (our family chihuahua) was taken about a year ago. We dressed him up in this cute little rain-deer outfit, but oh my! how difficult it was to just take a picture of him!
He managed to stay still just for a few seconds and this one was my favorite shot of him. I loved how the little bells from the tip of the antlers jingled all the way where ever he went! Lol