Forest walk on Christmas day moss covered with snow frosted leaves and frozen droplets clear blue sky and frost bitten cheeks perfect Christmas mood Merry Christmas!
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Tag: Macro
Water
Water is an amazing element
turning into beautiful crystals and frozen droplets
decorating the dead leaves and plants in the forest
and giving them new life and beauty
during the cold winter season.
It is a wonderful thing that snow crystals
floating slowly through the air
is the element water
frozen into perfectly shaped stars and flowers
each and everyone different from each other.
Silent season
Winter is beautiful.
The landscape and the forest is covered in snow making patterns you haven’t seen before. A chaotic but systematic pattern sprinkled with golden leaves, just to amaze you.
Winter is the silent, colorless and dark season. Different from the colorful and noisy autumn.
Nature now rests until spring arrive.
Natural styling
Orange mini mushroom brighten up the green moss like a little gem in the old fairytale forest. Nature is the forest´s perfect stylist.
Winter – not yet
It is November and still the winter hasn’t arrived here in Norway. In this time of the year we use to have temperatures below zero and it is time for snow. But we still have a rather warm autumn and in the forest there still grows mushrooms.
On Friday when I went for a walk it was 13 C and the sun was shining. It was a wonderful day. I went to a view point in mye neighborhood, the first photo. The mushroom on the second photo is beautiful even though it is getting old and fading very soon. I am not sure what type it is and if it is edible, but it could be Hygrophorus hypothejus also known as “herald of the winter”.
Sunny forest details
Autumn is my favorite time of the year in many ways:
- The temperature is very nice (not too hot)
- The air is crisp and fresh
- The sun is much lower in the sky = good light for forest photograpy
- Mushrooms
- Multicolored leaves
- Beautiful decay of flowers and plants
On some of my walks I find a lot of mushrooms, in other walks I can spot different forest details. Especially when the sun is shining a photo safari in the woods can be very interesting when it comes to light and colors.
Sun through fern leaves
Bokeh overload
Mycena and Stropharia – tiny mushrooms
A while ago I watched “Fantastic Fungi” together with my daughter. The mushroom kingdom is a fantastic world of fungi living and working together with both plants, trees and insects. The time lapses of growing mushrooms is so fun to watch.
Taking a walk in the forest after seeing this little documentary I decided to go look for the tiny mushrooms. The ones growing deep in the moss, on dead tree logs and among the fallen autumn leaves.
It was not easy to decide what types of mushroom I found but hopefully I have got the right family order for the mushrooms in the photo´s. The two first I think might be a part of the Mycena family. Number three is probably a Stropharia member due to the collar on the stem, the last one I am not sure about but it looks like it can be a part of the Armillaria family.
Mushrooms in October
After some days with heavy rain I went out for a walk nearby our house. I hoped to find some mushrooms to shoot. It was a quite short walk as the paths around here was muddy and very wet, some of them turn into creeks after the rainfall.
Well, I was lucky and found some mushrooms. I love to shoot mushrooms and this autumn they have been difficult to find. I was lucky to find some on my little walk, but they probably are the last ones this season. This week we actually had one day with snow, so winter awaits just around the corner.
Through the forest
Walking in the forest has always been one of my favorite things to do. When I was a child I loved to go for forest walks with my father. He thought me a lot of different plants, trees and berries. Maybe that’s why I grew so fond of macro photography.
It is a good combination to be fond of walks in the woods and macro photography. Finding the right target for macro photography takes some time so you have to walk slowly and use your eyes. It is necessary to leave the path because the most interesting macro targets often can be found on old tree logs, stones or hidden in the moss. Sometimes the sun beams hit a tree or a stone and gives you a lovely scenery when you walk by. For me walking through the forest it’s like being a part of a fairytale.
Fern
I was reading on wikipedia when I looked up fern that there are probably about 15000 different sorts of fern worldwide. About 200 sorts in Europe and 45 sorts in Norway. Interesting.
They kind of decorate the forest growing on a layer of moss which again grows on a stone, on an old tree log or a dead tree and alongside a little creek or covers an open field between the birches.
Fern
Reach for the sunlight
early spring
all curled up
Unfold
turning bright green
during summer
Color change
when autumn comes
curling up again
Anne Floa 