Omphalotus nidiformis the luminous Ghost Fungus

Posted by Trevor Quested on Sat Jul 02, 2005 3:04 am

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Here is a fungus I shot last weekend while on my 1st bird club meeting in my new city of Bundaberg, Queensland.

D1x, 105mm lens, f13 @ 1/2.5sec 125iso, white balance - shade, Reis tripod, Markins ballhead.

When one walks through the rainforest at night this fungus occurs in clusters sometimes and the light show is magic.

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by Rob VanGorden on Sat Jul 02, 2005 8:18 am

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Excellent detail. Nice capture.

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by Wil Hershberger on Sat Jul 02, 2005 8:54 am

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Cool. Wouldn't it be great to get a shot of it glowing.
This is very nice. I love all of the rich earth tones. Very well done.
Thanks for posting,

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by Lisa Gimber on Sat Jul 02, 2005 10:37 pm

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Gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!

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by MikeBinOK on Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:36 am

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Very interesting. I hope you go back and get a shot of this glowing!

While I was in the Army a gazillion years ago, someone showed me some US cousins of this glowing in the Alabama woods, and I now wish I'd been into photography in those days, and had a camera and tripod along to capture that glow!

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by Michael Brown on Sun Jul 03, 2005 11:55 am

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Certainly a very cool subject, and excellent shot of it too!!

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by AForns on Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:32 pm

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A beauty Trevor !!! Love the tones and composition!!!!

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by Jerry Merrell on Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:34 pm

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Lovely shot, Trevor.

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by Davidw on Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:36 pm

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great shot of a cool fungus. Fungi as a whole seem very difficult to capture well. You have done a great job on this one. Detail is incredible, colours also. That long exposure time did the trick.

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