frog eggs and fungi

Continuing along with my photo shoot from yesterday’s “Beautiful Day,” these photos are more about the subject than technique. Actually, that’s not true. I tried my hardest to get the best quality photos of the subjects that I could. I don’t think any of these were taken with auto settings, except for auto focus. I found it very difficult to photograph the white fungi, my photos tend to either be overexposed or underexposed.

This next photo is a hair out of focus, but I think it’s cool to show anyway. There were a bunch of frog eggs in the creek that I walked across. I’m concerned that it’s too early in the year, especially since we definitely are expecting more cold weather. But I’m not a frog, so what do I know?

And another:

The other cool find was this tree that was absolutely covered in shelf fungi. When I first saw it, I actually thought that someone had stuck Styrofoam plates on the tree for some weird reason. I posted a black & white photo in my last post. In that photo, you can see just how overtaken the tree was. I couldn’t really capture the whole experience unfortunately, but you can see three limbs, from foreground to background, that are covered.

A close up of the center of the photo above:

And one more, if you aren’t bored yet!

There are more photos on my flickr page.