Budding Beauty, a photo from Vysocina, Moravia

Photographer's Note

A small Amanita Muscaria (commonly known as the fly agaric or fly amanita), growing out of forest floor vegetation.

This mushroom is poisonous, but its lack of edibility is more than offset by its lovely colour and dots. It is found in coniferous forests and grows to a height of about 20 cm, with the cap being around 15 cm. But when they are small, they look like little red dotted balls.

They are especially pretty when you find a whole "family" of them, growing in green moss. But this has been a fairly dry year, so finding any mushroom is a challenge (to the great disappointment of most Czechs, because mushroom picking is a bit of a "national sport" here; but more on that some other time).

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Buin (42580) 2009-10-21 0:25

Hallo Dagmar!
Beautiful, really beautiful! The contrast in colours couldn't be bigger. I like all these details one can see here. Autumn at its best!
Please also look HERE ;-))
Greetings from cool but sunny Germany!
Frank

FreewheelerBee (263) 2009-10-21 1:53

Hi Dagmar !

This vegetal composition is awesome. the colours, the contrast, the details come out naturally. It reminds me my childhood, while i was hiking in the forest looking for mushrooms. We also have those amanitas here, red and cream ones.
Thanks for sharing :)
Have a nice day !
Clemence

alain66et6 (84) 2009-10-21 7:23

Bonjour Dagmar,
Voici une jolie macro avec de belles couleurs ! Le champignon est mis en valeur par une prise de vue � faible profondeur de champs.
Dans la nature les animaux comme les v嶲彋aux savent se d嶨endre parfois grace � leurs couleurs 嶰latantes... Comme on dit :"Tout ce qui brille n'est pas or".

Alain

BelCan75 (2201) 2009-10-21 11:16

Hello Dagmar,

A beautiful shot of this pretty mushroom. I remember these from when I lived in Europe. They are so pretty. I like your framing by the greenery which creates a great contrast. Beautiful colours and details! Well done!

Greetings,
Ann

PS: Thank you for the wishes! :o)

vasilpro (41801) 2009-10-22 14:28

Hello Dagmar,
Excellent nature composition, interesting kind of mushroom, very good fame and DOF, very nice close up photo, lovely colors.
Kind regards, Vasilis.

delpeoples (60342) 2009-10-23 4:53

Hi Dasha, I like the close-up of this interesting mushroom. Jaap posted a shot of the same type of mushroom recently, they're like the ones in fairy-tales aren't they? The colours and contrasts are lovely and I like the square framing. Warm regards from Sydney PS: congrats to your friend on all his gold medals, I hope he enjoyed his trip to Aus and has a safe voyage back home.

PixelTerror (0) 2009-10-23 9:36

Hi Dasha
Good narrow Dof to have this nice mushroom stand out from the surroundings.
Friday fun: all mushroom can be eaten... the bad ones only once ;-)
Have a nice day jY