Omphalotus nidiformis (Ghost Fungus) #7
THE SUBJECT:
A lovely display of Omphalotus nidiformis (Ghost Fungus) in the glorious natural light of an autumn afternoon.
THE LOCATION:
Beside a track in the Kattang Nature Reserve at Dunbogan, NSW, Australia.
THE MAKING of ‘Omphalotus nidiformis (Ghost Fungus) #7’:
I was on a fungi safari with a Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club mate and we heading back to the car after a very successful hunt when I spotted these fungi low on a tree trunk and almost hidden by foliage.
Clearing most of the foliage away allowed that beautiful light to wash over the subject from the side.
I only had my small tripod with me so I flattened my wheat bag out on top of some small branches at the base of the tree, set the tripod on top and extended one leg fully so it snagged on a branch for stability.
Fuji S9600: RAW, Manual settings of f/3.2 @ 1/5sec, Manual focus, ISO80, Tripod, Timer.
Lightroom 1.1 & Photoshop CS3.
Visit the Fungi & Lichen collection in my BubbleSite Gallery for more fabulous fungi.
NOTE:
I lightened the image slightly and gave the saturation a little tweak for printing on Ilford Galerie Smooth Gloss Media and it did a marvellous job on the colours and gave the image good depth.
UPDATE: 9-6-09
My ghostly fungi were awarded a MERIT certificate in the Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club’s May 2009 Competition in the Open Large Colour Print section.
Enjoy!
FUNGI: KATTANG
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Omphalotus nidiformis
Omphalotus nidiformis & Sciarid sp
Entoloma hochstetteri – The Blues Brothers #1
Spike Jones #3 – Cryptotrama asprata
Omphalotus nidiformis (Ghost Fungus) #7 belongs to the following groups:
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CynLynn
Beautiful!! excellent details, super work!!
Dennis Gay replied
Hola Cyn!
Good to see you are the first Bubbler to join us at Kattang and that your eagle eye has spotted this little Oyster colony.
Muchos gracias for your generous and encouraging “Beautiful!!...” comment for this fungal photograph.
GB
Dennis
Marvin Collins
Perfect exposure and focus, well done Dennis!!
Dennis Gay replied
Cheers Marvin!
Happy to see you along the track joining in the fungi safari and that you have espied these beauties in the undergrowth.
Many thanks indeed for your most generous and encouraging “Perfect…” comment for these fungal tree dwellers.
GB
Dennis
Clark Thompson
Quite and interesting photograph, Dennis. The angle and detail really makes this work nicely.
Dennis Gay replied
Ciao Clark!
So good to see another budding mycologist join us at Kattang and that you have spotted this Pleurotus family.
Glad to have whetted your interest and very grateful for the encouragement of your “Quite and interesting…” wrap for this fungal photograph.
GB
Dennis
debsphotos
What perfection!!!...both fungi and image!!! Excellent Dennis!!! *-)
Dennis Gay replied
Yowza Deb!
Your company at Kattang and your effervescent and encouraging ”...perfection…” comment are most gratefully appreciated.
GB
Dennis
Jens Helmstedt
I like this mushrooms growing on trees. Your collection is wonderful Dennis! Great work!
Dennis Gay replied
Cheers Jens!
Look up, look down, look all around for fabulous fungi.
Your enthusiastic and most supportive ”...Great work!” comment for this find in particular and my whole collection is greatly appreciated.
So glad you are enjoying the experience.
GB
Dennis
Dennis Gay
UPDATE: 9-6-09
My ghostly fungi were awarded a MERIT certificate in the Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club’s May 2009 Competition in the Open Large Colour Print section.
My utmost thanks to all on RedBubble who have supported this work. Without such encouragement and support it may well be still buried somewhere deep in my hard drive never to see the light of competition.
GB
Dennis
Dennis Gay
G’day denidab .... wherever you are …..,
Thank you for the honour of adding this work to your favourites. I can only assume by this action that you like it. Please fell free to return any time to let me know just what it is you like about it.
GB
Dennis