Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Water!

Here are a few photos of very tiny water drops which clung to a mushroom or fungus growing out of the shady side of a tree stump. I like how they look so round, the seem to be caught in motion while rolling down the side. But they were all stationary, in reality.

In the first photo above, my flash had failed to fire, so this picture is the result of some extreme exposure adjustment to compensate for the lack of light. But I like the color and graininess anyway, so here it is. The other photos are the result of my flash firing as I'd planned and are fascinating for their own reasons. I like the look of the focused light landing on the mushroom surface after having traveled through the lens of water.

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Play That Fungi Music, White Boy

The pod above is about the same thickness of the pin point I posted several weeks back. And look at all that detail around its little edge! Pretty cool.

Below is a picture of a mushroom that I flubbed by over-exposing it, but I like the look after dialing in some contrast, so, whatever.

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Chocolate Cake Mold

Mold started to grow exceptionally fast on a leftover chocolate cake hanging around the kitchen. I think the mold must have grown so quickly because it was a very very good chocolate cake, and not full of preservatives. Note the cool, gnarly little flower-like dealies at the ends of the mold spores.

The total area for the entire patch of mold was smaller than a dime, and it just appears to be a velvety, short, soft whitish-green fuzz. the portion I have shown here is a little smaller than a grain of rice.

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More of the Alien Fungus Farm

Another old one, well not that old. It's from August '08 in Muskoka, Canada.

Found these odd little guys on a decaying railroad tie. I love the variety among these fungi, and the wicked colors. Chartreuse, and piney green and white and candy apple red. I hope I see them again with my latest lens setup, so I can get closer... see what these are made of.

These remind me a little of the old Snorks cartoon.

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Alien Life Forms

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This is one of several photos I took of a bizarre fungal forest in Muskoka, Canada.

These little fungi looked like alien plant life; strange branchy things, something that looked like a tiny evergreen, odd Snork-like things with red bulbous ends. I loved how strange these little stands of fungus were.

As for size, they were only about 9mm high. This was shot in daylight using my 18-125mm and a macro filter attachment.

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