Mushrooms on a Rainy Day

georgedingwall · Post by **georgedingwall** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:48 am

Hi all,

It's been raining here for a few days, so there aren't many opportunites for photography at the moment.

I was out with the dogs this morning during a brief lull in the rain, and took my camera with me. I noticed these small mushrooms growing in clumps in the short grass and managed to get a couple of shots of them before the rain started again. I've no idea what type they are.

I didn't have a tripod with me, so I just lay on the ground and balanced the camera on my clenched left fist and kept as still as I could during the exposure.

This image was taken at 1/5 sec @ F11 ISO 100 using my Nikon D200 with a Sigma 150mm macro lens.

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:43 am

I think it came out very Artistically George. I like it very much. Lots of depth in the picture

georgedingwall · Post by **georgedingwall** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:26 am

Hi Doug,

beetleman wrote:I think it came out very Artistically George. I like it very much. Lots of depth in the picture

I've never really been very good at "Artistic Shots". I trained as a technical/arial photographer, and the training tended to push towards getting technically accurate images.

It's nice when I get the odd image that might fall into the "Artistic" category.

Bye for now.

bioluminescence · Post by **bioluminescence** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:05 am

Curiously, the mushrooms in Your photograph are of Psilocybe semilanceata species, which is hallucinogenic.

georgedingwall · Post by **georgedingwall** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:19 am

Hi there,

bioluminescence wrote:Curiously, the mushrooms in Your photograph are of Psilocybe semilanceata species, which is hallucinogenic.

The weather is so depressing here at the moment, I could do with a few magic mushrooms right about now.

Thanks for the tip.

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:29 am

Welcome to the forums bioluminescence. I see this is your first post. Good to have you here. I thought the mushroom looked like that one also...but I thought they grew out of cow dung and I didn`t see any dung.

The weather is not much better here. Raining and cold to the bone.

georgedingwall · Post by **georgedingwall** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:45 am

Hi Doug,

beetleman wrote: I thought the mushroom looked like that one also...but I thought they grew out of cow dung and I didn`t see any dung.

I live on a working farm, so there are a lot of cattle around the place.

Bye for now.

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:32 pm

This is a really really nice shot, I could see it on a wall, calendar or greeetings card!
Superb!