Fungi 3

3 Mushrooms in the rain

This was a spur of the moment photo that I took on my way to work and I wasn’t sure how it would come out (I was running late and didn’t have time to try any different settings on my compact).

I had noticed a few fungi here and there as autumn had set in, but the ones I wanted to photograph had vanished.  I was almost at work when I noticed this small group of mushrooms and it struck me that with an autumn leaf on the top it looked as though one of them was sheltering from the rain.  The composition is not as great as I would have liked, ideally I would have been able to get rid of the post on the left and just have the mushrooms and grass, but I still like the quirkiness of the photo, which sums up November to me, even nature is trying to get away from the damp!  (In an ideal world it would be sharper from back to front as well.)

The photo was taken on my trusty Ixus, ISO200, settings chosen by the camera were (on macro setting) 5.8mm, f/2.8, 1/40 secs.