'Shrooms are so much fun to photograph!

[AndyS]

I spent $20 on a 'grow your own' mushroom kit. It's a brick of compressed sawdust infused with mushroom stuff. Open it, water it and wait. That's so cheap for all the enjoyment I've had from posing and lighting them in my desktop studio. I also got to eat them!

As the nutrition in the brick is depleted the 'shrooms change personality. First they are a cluster as oyster mushrooms normally come it the store. Then there's one stalk here and another over there. In what I assume is the final stage they are small singular groups or singular stalks, about 1 inch tall.



If anyone wants information on building a table top studio let me know in replies. When your back gives up you have something to do while confined to your office chair.

[mikeysnot]

1. Morel season is right around the corner...

[MuseRider]

2. I was going to say...

I think we may have a good year here. Lately the last few years have been so so for us, too late and the grasses are grown too tall and the bushes are leafed out and it is almost impossible to see them. The best year I ever had was in March, so many I could not even give them all away. Many growing right up in the pasture and were bigger than my hand.

Back to the topic, I love your pictures. They really are awesome and there are so many different ones.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Oh, goody, more legs!

Or something...

Beautiful capture, my dear Andy.