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Trichia Slime Moulds
e6filmuser
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Slime moulds come in many shapes and colours. Here, I feature a white one and an orange one. Both will darken as they enter a resistant stage.
The white one:
On 26 October, during the school holidays, we were allowed special access to the wooded grounds of a school. "We" were a local fungus foray group.
I spotted this mini cave-like hole under a rotten log lying at a sharp angle. When framing the mushrooms*, I spotted clear fruiting bodies of a slime mould, the white lollipops in the images. Ideally, I would have gone in closer but experience shows, as with the orange species, that there is not much more detail to see.
* Two to three cm diameter.
EM-1 (manual mode), Kiron 105mm, diffused TTL flash, hand-held.
Both images cropped for composition.
The orange one:
This species was growing on old logs at the bottom of my garden.
EM-1,Kiron 105mm Raynox MSN-202, 1/2000*, ISO 640 and 400 probably f16, twin TTL flash, off-camera, hand-held.
The images have suffered somewhat from the need to remove a lot of JPGE noise after the camera repairer reset my file capture from RAW. I still think they are worthwhile, but ignore the "bokeh".
* Not a typo! Super FP mode.
Harold
The white one:
On 26 October, during the school holidays, we were allowed special access to the wooded grounds of a school. "We" were a local fungus foray group.
I spotted this mini cave-like hole under a rotten log lying at a sharp angle. When framing the mushrooms*, I spotted clear fruiting bodies of a slime mould, the white lollipops in the images. Ideally, I would have gone in closer but experience shows, as with the orange species, that there is not much more detail to see.
* Two to three cm diameter.
EM-1 (manual mode), Kiron 105mm, diffused TTL flash, hand-held.
Both images cropped for composition.
The orange one:
This species was growing on old logs at the bottom of my garden.
EM-1,Kiron 105mm Raynox MSN-202, 1/2000*, ISO 640 and 400 probably f16, twin TTL flash, off-camera, hand-held.
The images have suffered somewhat from the need to remove a lot of JPGE noise after the camera repairer reset my file capture from RAW. I still think they are worthwhile, but ignore the "bokeh".
* Not a typo! Super FP mode.
Harold
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Thanks. I like the way that macro images, especially of tiny life forms, show us detail the naked eye cannot see.
Harold
Brian v.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/
http://www.lordv.smugmug.com/
Thanks, Brian.
I first saw one (Fuligo septica?) about 50 years ago, outside the biology lab at school. I have "discovered" them in recent years and find them addictive.
Harold