30 Sep 2023
First Attempts at Fungi
Lots of rain and thousands of nasty mosquitoes accompanied me into the Swedish woods when I did my first serious attempts at photographing fungi. The Swedish woods were full of fungi - the edible kinds like porcini or chanterelles which we loved to prepare with pasta or as a risotto 😋😋😋 and the inedible and poisonous kinds. I soon realised that they all had in common that they are rather big, too big for the kind of photos I had in mind. It's the really tiny ones that grow on moss that bring the best photographic results. Here's a collection of older pictures mostly of slimy beech caps and of my new fungi photos...