Vivid mushrooms by christopher363
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These two orange mushrooms grew in the more grassy, inland parts of Forvie sands – a coastal nature reserve north of Aberdeen, Scotland

Possibly a type of waxy caps (thanks, Carla, for the ID)

October 2006

Canon 20D with Tamron 28-300mm Di lens

Featured in “Fungilicious” 12/04/2010

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autumn, coastal, featured css, forvie sands, grampian, gras, mushrooms, orange, scotland

Comments

  • Rick  London
    Rick Londonabout 2 years ago

    Super color and great capture. Rick

  • Dear Rick, thanks a lot for the nice compliment.

    – christopher363

  • ChristinaR
    ChristinaRabout 2 years ago

    Hey Christopher, love your fungi photos. Please have a look at the Fungilicious group!

  • Dear Christina, thank you very much for your nice comment and for the useful hint.

    – christopher363

  • Carla Wick/Jandelle Petters
    Carla Wick/Jan...about 2 years ago

    beautiful colors! I think these are a variety of Waxy Caps….lovely!
    Thanx ChristinaR for mentioning our group!

  • Dear Carla, thank you very much for the ID and your lovely comment!

    – christopher363

  • Esther's Art and Photography
    Esther's Art a...about 2 years ago

    Your work has been featured and you can enter this image into the
    April Features challenge

  • Dear Esther, thank you very much for the feature, I appreciate it very much.

    – christopher363

  • MischaC
    MischaCabout 2 years ago

    Wow! They do look like they were carved of wax and what a great color. Congrats on the well-deserved feature!

  • Dear Mischa, thank you very much for your nice compliment!

    – christopher363

  • valandsnake
    valandsnakeabout 2 years ago

    lovely contrast of orange against the green, well done and congrats on the feature.

  • Thank you very much for your appreciation and nice compliment

    – christopher363