Mold, Fungi and Acorns: 12 macro etudes
Maybe its a bit late today for #mushroommonday, and too early for #fungifriday, but its always right time to admire the magic vitality and diversity of fungi world. I gonna present you some acorn caps in the #macro mode, feel free to enter; just a dozen fresh captures I did today in the morning.
See, yesterday I returned from our summer place where I enjoyed the last warm days and explored the decay of the nature... and of course I brought back another pack of macros. Also I brought a little bag of dried leaves and acorn caps to shoot later properly. You may ask - whats the reason? Look.
The leaves had a fungi colony.... but thats not what I was after.
While crawling on my knees taking pics of real toadstool that popped up around our oak tree... all of a sudden, I found this. Many times I watched other posts here at Hive when other folks had a chance to capture those little sneaky fungi that habitated fir or pine cones. The size contrast between a cone and delicate tiny fungi sprouts that utilize it is astonishing and exciting.
For ages I felt envy when I stumbled upon such posts and macros; obviously I wanted to nail such stuff myself. And it finally happened... not with the cones but with acorn caps - but still good! I had bad lighting and not much time to make proper captures, so I grabbed a few pieces and hoped for better that they will not die and give me a chance to arrange a photosession later.
This is a crop of the photo below.
This is another crop of the photo below, with even more magnification.
Here you see the newspaper basement, hehe. Well... the location changed from wild nature soil near oak tree to the windowsill of my apartment... but fungi stayed basically the same, just some of them became wilted (a bit).
In a few spots I noticed another guest arrived - the mold. The mold is going to utilize the mushrooms, and this is a fantastic example of how there is nothing superfluous in nature, everything is connected to everything else and affects everything. Nature has no emptiness, and its redundancy is expedient and not at all excessive. The sustainability of biosystems lies precisely in diversity and redundancy... but forgive me, I digressed. Let's continue enjoying the spectacle of mushrooms.
И тут, при увеличении фото, я заметил что у меня появился новый гость: плесень; она собирается утилизировать грибы, и это фантастический пример того что в природе нет ничего лишнего, все связано со всем и влияет на все. Природа не терпит пустоты, а ее избыточность - целесообразна и вовсе не избыточна. Устойчивость биосистем кроется именно в многообразии и избыточности... но простите, я отвлекся. Давайте насладимся дальше зрелищем грибов.
A crop of the photo above - to see the mold attacking the fungus. Saprophites gonna be utilized in their turn too!
| location: | Vyritza, Russia | September 2025 | natural light |
| camera/lens: | Canon 5dm3 | Sigma 150mm | raw-conv |
| f/6.3 | t 1/160 | ISO 400 | -- |
Thanks for walking with me, see you next time!
This header was created by @riverflows
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Hive is so cool. I have now seen all kinds of fungi that I had never seen before!
One need to stand on his knees just to discover their presence.
How small they are, great Shots
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Maybe the smallest fungi I ever captured. Indeed, very very tiny. One cannot notice it without standing on his knee. 😊 So I payed full respect to this specie, ha, ha!
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Thanks a lot, Sir. ☘️
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Ah yes the tiny acorn fungi. Have to keep a sharp eye out for those. Wonder if they are edible...
even if they are edible - it wpuld be cont-fruitful to spend time of picking tham. better to pick up one decent meaty fungus, right?
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