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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-06-2023, 01:04 AM
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Shots from the wooded area of our home place. K-10 with Takumar 55mm f 1.8.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-27-2023, 01:16 AM
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Views of the little forest at our country place.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-02-2022, 09:32 AM
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It is interesting how a squirrel has stored a black walnut for future access.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-06-2021, 12:41 PM
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More forest shots with K-10 and Leica 35-70 f 4.0 macro.
The last photo shows an uprooted tree with its roots toward the bank. Our little creek has lots of these trees which have been undercut by the erosion effects of the water. However, this particular tree is different as our resident wild mink has made its den in between the creek bank and the roots of the fallen tree.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-06-2021, 12:33 PM
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A few shots in the woods of our place with K-10 and the Leica 35-70mm vario-Elmar-R f 4.0 macro, my favorite vintage zoom lens. The back part of our land is covered with black walnut trees, and they produce bushels of nuts every year. The nuts are difficult to shell, and I have never really bothered with them. However, they provide an ample food supply for our resident squirrel population.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-19-2021, 03:03 PM
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Une Grenouille vit un bœuf
Qui lui sembla de belle taille.
Elle qui n'était pas grosse en tout comme un œuf,
Envieuse s'étend, et s'enfle, et se travaille
Pour égaler l'animal en grosseur,
Disant : Regardez bien, ma sœur ;
Est-ce assez ? dites-moi ; n'y suis-je point encore ?
— Nenni. — M'y voici donc ? — Point du tout. — M'y voilà ?
— Vous n'en approchez point. La chétive pécore
S'enfla si bien qu'elle creva.
Le monde est plein de gens qui ne sont pas plus sages :
Tout Bourgeois veut bâtir comme les grands Seigneurs,
Tout petit Prince a des Ambassadeurs,
Tout Marquis veut avoir des Pages.
Translation of La Fontaine's classic verse:
The Frog Who Would Be as Big as an Ox
A Frog had an Ox in her view;
His bulk, to her, appeared ideal.
She, not even as large, all in all, as an egg hitherto,
Envious, stretched, swelled, strained, in her zeal
To match the beast in overall size,
Saying, "Sister, lend me your eyes.
Is this enough? Am I not yet there, in every feature?"
"Nope." "Then now?" "No way." "There now, as good as first?"
"You’re not anywhere near." The diminutive creature
Inflated still more, till she burst.
The world is full of folk who are as far from being sages.
Every city gent would build chateaux like Louis Quatorze;
Every petty prince names ambassadors,
Every marquis wants to have pages.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-22-2021, 03:07 PM
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Not fungus but snowdrops.
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03-06-2021, 06:15 AM
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I have already begin my watch for morels and puffballs, the edible scenery.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-01-2021, 12:42 AM
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These huge white puffballs from this past fall survived the winter as fungus dust!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-18-2021, 07:07 PM
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Walking in the woods today after a light overnight snowfall . . . not too much visible because of the snow cover.
KIT: K-1 with Zeiss 100mm Makro-Planar f 2.0.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-15-2020, 10:03 AM
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A morning walk after a few rainy days
KIT: K-1 with Leica Vario-Elmar-R 35-70mm f 4.0 macro.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-23-2020, 11:39 AM
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K-1 color walk with Pentax-A 645 55mm f 2.8.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-17-2020, 02:08 AM
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A little fall color from the small forest at the back of our place.
KIT: K-1 with Kiron 105mm f 2.8 macro 1:1.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-16-2020, 02:10 AM
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Here are three that have sprung up following our spell of wet weather.
KIT: 645D with Pentax 67 55mm f 4.0, great big super sharp len that focusses with MFD of only 14 inches.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-10-2020, 10:18 AM
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We have a plethora of fungi after a 6-inch rain that overflowed our creek.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-14-2020, 03:51 PM
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Sort of a botanical "from dust thou art . . ."
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-22-2020, 04:21 PM
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I had two nice batches of morels this season.The whole family loves them. I also had a nice cream of mushroom soup with a slightly over mature pheasant back. You can very safely add pheasant back to your mushroom repertoire.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-22-2020, 01:50 AM
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The second photo is "pheasant back," deliciously edible mushroom, though this one is overly mature and tough. You can still put it in a blender with some water and make a puree for some excellent mushroom soup.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-07-2020, 04:57 PM
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Anyone ever seen anything like this one?
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-28-2020, 12:35 PM
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Thanks for sharing these fascinating fungi. Very interesting ones, and of course great photos.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-18-2020, 09:42 AM
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Morels and pheasant backs are two of the most delicious fungus finds from the forest!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-15-2020, 05:01 PM
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These two photos show a dead tree lost in a violent wind and rain storm last night and a view of newly leafing forest growth.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-15-2020, 12:00 PM
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Today I found a couple of morels and one nice pheasantback mushroom along the creek in the back of our place. These are very tasty sauteed gently in unsalted butter and (if you like) a clove of fresh crushed garlic.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-15-2020, 01:58 PM
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Photos of Gravel Creek, the little stream that forms the back border of our wooded country property. This creek gradually changes its course through our part of the northern hardwood forest by undercutting the bank and trees during periods of high water flow.
KIT: K-1 with medium format lens Mamiya 645 C 120mm f 4.0 macro, used with Mamiya to K-1 adapter.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-06-2019, 04:59 AM
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The creek at the back of our country place offers the opportunity of observing the effects of flowing water upon the course of the stream and upon the fauna growing along side of it. The flowing water forces changes in the shape and direction of the streambed and leaves leaning and dead trees in its wake. There must be some fungus somewhere in these photos!
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