The lovely little Amanitas are just so irresistible! Large hats covered (most of the time) in spots are asking to be shot.
Multiple times!
On a good day, when the fall is still warm but also rainy enough, it is almost like some unwritten competition to find the biggest one. Or the one with the nicest spot placement.
You enter the forest, and you basically end up walking like a drunk person from one mushroom to another. There is no plan (I usually don't have any), no map - just from one little spot in the soil to another.
For hours :)
I am not sure what type of Amanita this is. Google shows me a few that look extremely alike to me, but I narrowed it down to two: pantherina and rubescens. Somehow, I think it's the first one, but I'm still not sure.
Either way. It is pretty :)
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I am amazed every time I see mushrooms lifting all the damp and decomposing leaves and needles. Some emerge from thick soil, dense moss... It almost seems impossible that such a delicate structure can do that.
Most of the mushrooms, though toxic to humans, have been munched by my other little forest creatures.
This is how most of them grow. They push through the layers and layers of needles and sticks.
They are easy to spot from a distance as they are some of the largest ones, but there are plenty of tiny little ones growing among them too.
This one is very flirtatious :)
Bonus shot:
It is not all dark and brown in the woods. Most parts are covered in lush green moss and when you look down with all the little spots of light shining though it looks like a quiet fairyland.
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Shot with Nikon D5500 + Sigma 105mm lens
All photos, graphics and text are my own.
