Photographing Mushrooms

[p.giannakis]

Went this weekend for a foraging event - I have to say I am not brave enough to pick up mushrooms but I was fascinated by the beauty of those plants. I took some snapshots with my phone which I am uploading here.

Any foraging experts in here? Please post your pictures of mushrooms.





I found this one - very proud of myself - apparently it belongs to the porcini family of mushrooms.

 

[raydm6]

Photographing Mushrooms... ...not smoking... ...should be a cool thread.

I play it safe and only eat the ones purchased at the grocery store.

iPhone 4 ~ ProCamera 3.1 (c. 2011)


Toadstool #1 by rdc154, on Flickr

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Fly Agaric,
Leica M-E, 7.3cm f/1.9 Hektor, slight crop.

 

[santino]

Those are safe, straight out of the forest.

 

[Vince Lupo]

Went this weekend for a foraging event - I have to say I am not brave enough to pick up mushrooms but I was fascinated by the beauty of those plants. I took some snapshots with my phone which I am uploading here.

Any foraging experts in here? Please post your pictures of mushrooms.

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This one looks like Russula Emetica, which I would not eat. Not sure about the other two.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russula_emetica

 

[Out to Lunch]

When I lived and worked in Moldova and often traveled to Kyiv, Ukraine, lots of mushrooms were being sold by the side of the road. I never bought any after a Moldovan doc explained that most had high radioactive contamination levels following the Chornobyl disaster. Cheers, OtL

 

[retinax]

Mushroom fact for ya: Fungi are not plants but a separate group of organisms beside animals, plants, bacteria etc.

 

[raydm6]

I'm still a little fuzzy myself on the distinction between a toadstool vs. mushroom. Some use it interchangeably.

 

[Ambro51]

How about a tasty cream donut or an orange surprise?

 

[Coldkennels]

Here's one I found in a nearby park while out for a wander yesterday:


(X-Pro 2 with a Contax-to-Fuji adapter and a Helios-103)

Best I can figure is it's a Shaggy Foliota, but I'm terrible at identifying mushrooms, so I would never want to take the risk even if I thought it was something edible. A friend of mine did his dissertation on mushrooms and fungi many years back, and he's always finding edible ones. I was once walking with him through the woods only for him to dart off the path and scramble a good 30m (about 33 yards) up a hill through some trees. When I followed him, I found him excitedly admiring something no one else would have spotted: some Chicken of the Woods growing on a dead tree. He broke off a huge slab of it and carried it all the way through the Kentish countryside for the rest of the day.

He said it tasted incredible; I'll take his word for it.

 

[p.giannakis]

This one looks like Russula Emetica, which I would not eat. Not sure about the other two.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russula_emetica

I called it "Orange cheesecake" because that's what came to my mind.

 

[Vince Lupo]

I called it "Orange cheesecake" because that's what came to my mind.

Mmm yeah don't think they taste the same

 

[markjwyatt]

Maybe not a mushroom, but fungus. Really curious what this is (taken in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, USA)


Forest Fungus by Mark Wyatt, on Flickr

 

[raydm6]

I just searched and I'm surprised we don't have a dedicated moss or lichen thread?

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[raydm6]

I just started one. Please contribute. And show some more mushrooms here too!

 

[rhl-oregon]

A Lepiota among autumn hardwoods. I see them more commonly in fertilized lawns and green fields.

SL, Sigma 24/3.5

 

[shawn]

GFX 50R, 55mm f2.8 micro-nikkor

Shawn

 

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[peefeeniz]

Triple post!

 

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