july mushrooms, still no harvest; macro #300

Hola, setero! #FungiFriday hold by @ewkaw is here,
and I have some findings and visual pleasures from this week to share.

It was a week of massive rains (night and day), but windy and cold, with very few sunny moments (or even none). I walk across our site each day wondering where are the mushrooms?.. they have not arrived yet, in quantaties suitable for foraging and cooking purposes. But I still was able to find interesting single instances here and there - enough for intresting photos. So...

Checking the gutter in the morning, before breakfast, on a piece of aspen log I found this mushroom of unusual orange-brown tint. You grew not in vain, my friend! Now hundred eyes will see you, instead of nobody, instead of living just for a decomposing pile.

It had a cool black leg! To be precise, half-leg was black, like it was dressed in the stockings ;)

I really enjoyed shooting it from different angles, and made a solid .raws folder -- will share more pics in the future, after I do a proper focus stacking.

So, after the breakfast I considered there must be more fungi around, and ventured into another walk, and stumbled upon a tiny newborn tree mushroom...

..with quite a plain cap, but it had a cool labyrinth-pattern on the downside. (It was a really tiny mushroom, 15-20mm in diameter; below is the view from the top). @sketch.and.jam suggested an iD for it: most probably this maze polypore is a young Daedalea quercina. They are well-spread and not rare.

Then, under the spruce tree, a lucky spot for this umbrella mushroom -- useless and unedible, but how cool does it look like under a proper light!

And the look is even more better, with a punch of x-processing. Almost a gingerbread house!

In the dark bush I stumbled upon an old rotten green Russula --

Poor light, and the mushroom is not a very intresting one, but i noticed theres a grape snail around, and, you know, those graceful creatures really change the space around, they have a very strong, powerful aura. An unremarkable bad mushroom became a magical place, a center of attraction and the source of an excellent macro photo series!

And now this. I met a slug was sneaking up on oyster mushrooms and even began to bite pieces from them. Some folks dont love slugs (and me too!) but other wise, the slug are the same as snails, just without a shell - so I doubtlessly took a few picture of him too!

And one more handsome unedible UFO --

...looks especially cool under the veil.

When having nothing to shoot, I always come back to the spot where I overseer the growing of a big wood fungi family - and start to level-up my art of photo-composition on them.

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Now, its time to part ways; I wish you good luck -- and Good Hunting!

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#FungiFriday fun challenge is hold by @EwkaW

I hope many of you will join, as there are only 2 simple rules:

• when Friday comes, share your fungi with us! post your own, original photo/drawing/art/food/anything-at-all of any type of fungi (yes, stolen images will be checked and reported !)
• add #fungifriday (not necessarily must be your 1st tag). that's all!