This week I was a little short of time for my normal walk around the Australian Botanical gardens, Mount Annan so only had time for my mushroom shots this week, bit of a rushed day all round here.

Started off I had to go to the shops as it’s my Mother’s Birthday next week and a Family BBQ tomorrow, so that meant a shopping trip but I was going there any way as yesterday I got a call from the local JBHI telling me my custom iMac 5K had arrived J (At this point in time still in its box unopened that’s tonight’s fun. So I’m switching from windows PCs to a mac, we’ll see what fun that brings, but the 5K screen should be great for the photo editing, I know there was some issues with lightroom on the 5K macs but I believe that’s been fixed with an update by apple to the operating system the other week, plus a new version of lightroom coming out in March so should be screaming along by then. So after the shopping and unloading the mac I grabbed my gear and headed out only taking my Mushroom gear today as the tight schedule was still on as I’ve a room to finish prepping ready for painting, The fun never stops.

But back todays shoot. Started out heading straight to the Wollemi pine walk of discovery as that’s where I’ve found the mushrooms of late and this week in Sydney has been wet and cooler than the over thirty Deg we’ve had for the last few weeks. As I walked in I saw a small family first up and thought that’s promising and would get them on the way back. I Walked along the track and found my second set of mushrooms, The first one was a little yellow mushroom that was by itself but in the leaf litter, but all around was these little Coral Fungi I’ve never noticed them before in the gardens, I’m sure they have always been around but it’s the first time I’d noticed them, so I set up on the yellow mushroom and took the shots, again various locations of the speed lights till I was happy.

I had a few shots of the corals and went on, I found another patch of Yellow mushrooms spouting Up guess it was yellow mushroom day today. I set to work on another nice one, but noticed there was several in various stages of just breaking the ground so I had to be careful where I moved so as not to damage them. So this was the final shot of got of the first one.

I then moved on to this one that had all but broken through the ground, still had a few pieces of dirk clinging to it. So I set up the speedlites again and took several shots again. This was the best of them.

I then started to walk back out, and as I turned I found this one actually growing on the path and somehow I missed it walking down, So again set up on this one, This one I set up the softbox to the side and then set the other speedlite to backlight it, It gave a nice orange glow to the cap from behind.

I checked my other shots on the back of the LCD and decided that I wasn’t that happy with the coral shots earlier so on the way back stopped and took another shot of them, Strange worm like Fungi with one tiny normal looking one in amount them these are only around 2mm in dia so really tiny and the little Mushroom one is even smaller, so delicate and small.

As I walked out I stopped at the set I first saw walking in and took this shot of them, they were out in the full sun and looked a little worse for wear for the heat. But made a nice shot just the same, This is the shot I’ve used for my Google plus post for the day. 

So a quite day in the gardens, but still managed 152 shots this is the best of them from today. 

I then went home had lunch and then spend the rest of the afternoon sanding back old paint and patching small holes in the walls etc. ready to paint, so more fun to come there. So the fun never stops. But a good day shooting this morning. 

Thanks for dropping by.

Glenn