Fabulous Fungi

[Greg Beetham]

I envision a very valuable roll for you Yildiz, you could keep a lookout for reinforcments and look after the biscuits and tea, or any nice little cakes you might happen too have on hand. And if I've got that Toro guy by the throat you could accidently bonk him with the rolling pin. (if he looks like winning)
Greg

[aster]

I envision a very valuable roll for you Yildiz, you could keep a lookout for reinforcments and look after the biscuits and tea, or any nice little cakes you might happen too have on hand. And if I've got that Toro guy by the throat you could accidently bonk him with the rolling pin. (if he looks like winning)
Greg

I have a better idea to keep us from any offensive means and also from behind any undesirable bars; we'll go the Japanese / Chinese way of courtesy: We'll bake a roller pin out of biscuit and pie dough and will place our roll of paper printed with a list of gear wishes inside the cylindiracal part, much like a fortune cookie and make Toro a gift of it.

"Eat sweet, think sweet, talk sweet and get butter-sweet gear in return" should be our motto!

Yildiz

[Greg Beetham]

Yes very wise Yildiz, that sounds like an excellent plan...A large fortune cookie, I wouldn't have thought of that...
how could he resist.
Greg

[aster]

Yes very wise Yildiz, that sounds like an excellent plan...A large fortune cookie, I wouldn't have thought of that...
how could he resist.
Greg

Thank you, Greg!

I thought the 'pun' intended by the selected form, a rolling pin, would pass the subtle intentions across quite successfully... That the high-end DSLR user requires some uninterrupted attention and ultimately good equipment and is getting really impatient!

Yildiz

[david antony]

Those are fabulous fungi Birma. Good to see your new lens is performing
so well for you. I have been too busy to take and post photos lately but
managed to take these fungi early this evening.

Growing between the pavement cracks.




One from Tsatsu Shores.

[Greg Beetham]

Wow back on topic with a bang, good ones DA. I've always been impressed with fungi in the speed they grow at, they seem to get all their growth/energy from very little nutriment, especially those that grow on dead trees.
Greg

[Birma]

Thank you for the barricade and rolling pin banter Greg and Yildiz - that also helped brighten my morning . Giant fortune cookies with Alpha wish lists - brilliant!

Thanks DA. Back on topic - love those shots DA - great light, colours, composition - just great. Something to aim for - hope I get some fungi hunting time this weekend .

[aster]

Hi David Antony, : ))

Great photos! I especially enjoyed the first one where the fungi try and grow between the pavement cracks... Wonderful curvelinear superimposed formation. And definitely love the light and the silver-grey in the second.


Yildiz

[Dr. Harout]

Wonderful shots DA. Were you actually crawling on the grass?

[david antony]

Thanks for the kind comments Greg, Birma, Aster & Doc.

Doc # one shot was the first time I used the LCD to take a photo.
# two was on a slight slope, I did lay/crawl on the grass for that one. ;^)

[pakodominguez]

This is from the Inca Trail, back in 2004. Taken with the Dimage 7Hi 125 f6.7, on board flash.

[Birma]

Nice Inca Trail fungi Pako. That picture makes me think of Christmas, despite mushrooms not being especially festive It must be the fir-tree-like vegetation, and the other bits that look like decorations.

[david antony]

Took this fair sized fungus attached to a tree this evening.

[Birma]

Fab fungus indeed DA. Well done for reviving the thread

[Greg Beetham]

Great fungi shot DA, and nice lighting as well.
Greg