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A little mushroom family seen in #Ashridge yesterday.

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7 mushrooms attached to a piece of log litter. The front one has some little hairs visible where its attached to the log. Focus stacked so mostly in focus with blurred autumnal background behind.
November 8, 2026 at 5:13 PM
naturaelapides.bsky.social
Tunellite is a rare and fragile borate that forms these delicate, translucent little crystals, which are so difficult to photograph.

#mineral #crystal #macrophotography #focusstacking
Cristal massif et aiguilles fines de tunellite transparente
November 10, 2026 at 6:19 AM
sophiecarr.bsky.social
What a weekend of photography this has been! Fog, sun through fog, mushrooms galore...

Found some more magpie inkcaps today. They are my favourite type of fungus I think, just so cool :)

#mushrooms #fungi #Ashridge #macrophotography #FocusStacking
A magpie inkcap mushroom - black and white cap with a long white stalk, with leaf litter below and green blurred background, framed by two trees. Focus-stacked so the whole of the mushroom, its gills and stems are all perfectly in focus, while the remaining scene is blurred to help it stand out.
November 8, 2026 at 6:56 PM
naturaelapides.bsky.social
Umangite is a copper selenide with a deep purple color, and in this specimen it is intergrown with light blue-green chalcomenite (look at the bottom center). A beautiful combination for this #mineralmonday

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umangite violette mélangée à de la chalcomenite bleue-verte
November 9, 2026 at 8:34 AM
dustymcdusterson.bsky.social
An animation of the 44 pictures that went into the 2nd picture in the above post. A lot of extra pixel adjustment was required because I haven't cleaned the glass recently and specs of dust really blow up when stacking. #GIF #Animation #Fungi #Microscopy #FocusStacking
November 8, 2026 at 7:49 PM
wky51.bsky.social
Baumpilze
In-Camera-Focusstack (aus 12 Bilder)

#herbst
#pilze
#baumpilze
#mushrooms
#focusstacking
November 6, 2026 at 5:46 PM
wky51.bsky.social
Baumpilze
In-Camera-Focusstacks (aus je 12 Bilder)

#herbst
#pilze
#baumpilze
#mushrooms
#focusstacking
November 6, 2026 at 5:37 PM
naturaelapides.bsky.social
Roweite is a rare borate—there is only one specimen in the topotype—that forms stunning aggregates of brown lamellae.
So delicate!

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lamelles brunes de roweite sur matrice
November 6, 2026 at 7:59 AM
naturaelapides.bsky.social
Ferrihollandite is an oxide of barium and manganese that forms long black or grey crystals, with iridescence at the outcrops. The crystals grow within the host rock, in this case violet fluorite.

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cristaux allongés de ferrihollandite noir dans une matrice de fluorine violette
November 11, 2026 at 6:53 AM
naturaelapides.bsky.social
It’s too late for Halloween, but here’s a bit of toxic blood-red colour, with a close-up of the realgar in the orpiment specimen.

Uncrystallised, massive, with that red that serves as a reminder of the danger posed by this arsenic antimonide

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realgar rouge vif massif melangé à de l'orpiment jaune
November 7, 2026 at 6:56 AM
dhphotographyinfo.bsky.social
Found these tiny Trichia decipiens on a small branch of decaying wood. About 1-2mm in size and in a perfect line.
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#SlimeMould #SlimeMold #Myxomycetes #TrichiaDecipiens #MacroPhotography #ExtremeMacro #FocusStacking #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Biodiversity #Nature
November 4, 2026 at 7:42 PM
naturaelapides.bsky.social
A touch of blue for BlueSky this morning, with this specimen of chrysocolla. Take your pick: cerulean blue, marine blue, Provençal sky blue, crystal-clear blue…

Even more beautiful in the flesh.

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chrysocolle massif d'un bleu azuréen
November 3, 2026 at 7:17 AM
naturaelapides.bsky.social
A beautiful Danburite for this #mineralmonday, with lovely facets and lighting designed to highlight its transparency, internal iridescence, and beautiful brilliance resulting from its high refractive index.

Also fluorescent and thermoluminescent

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cristal blanc de danburite
November 2, 2026 at 11:27 AM
dustymcdusterson.bsky.social
I love a mushroom group photo! 🍄📷🍄‍🟫

5+ species here! Can you spot them?

This is me new favorite especially because I followed it up with some #Microscopy on the decayed leaf stem! #Fungi

More pics below #FocusStacking #NaturePhotography
(1) The 2x larger gilled and a tiny cap just to the left of the orange coral mushroom are one species. (2) The decayed leaf stem in the middle is covered in a handful of an unknown tiny species (leaf maybe from red alder or madrone?) (3) The orangy coral looking mushroom to the bottom right. (4) Just to the right of it a pine needle with another group of tiny mushrooms I believe to be distinct from #2. (5) the only one that wasn't in the scene when I found it is the Douglas-fir cone mushroom pair on the top right. I found the mostly eaten cone just below this scene that was located on the roots of a fallen decaying tree. This picture is a focus stacked composite of 101 pictures taken in a series using my Canon EOS 70-D camera. There are 3 mushrooms in this image. The one on the top right is only the stem growing from the decayed leaf stem and the one in the center is actually 2 with the larger largely obscuring the one behind. The strand I believe to be spider silk. This is a focus stack of 17 images taken with a Canon 70-D mounted to a microscope. A picture of the scene right after I was finished photographing it. I should have turned off the blinding light but oh well. The picture was the moss covered roots of a fallen decaying tree. I used 3x lights for the scene and because of the height of the shot had to use my backpack to hold one of the lights. Might look into telescoping stands for the lights for scenes like this. I could have lit it better, or at least easier, with that.
November 8, 2026 at 7:49 PM
thebrownstuff.bsky.social
Learning on Mouse Lane

Three handheld frames, three focus distances, one landscape stack. A little camera wobble and plenty learned in twenty minutes. Today’s photo was about practising.

#Autumn #FocusStacking #Photography #Steyning #photooftheday
Yellow fallen leaves line Mouse Lane in Steyning beneath an arching green canopy, with the kerb leading towards a bright opening and a distant car. Three handheld photographs, focused at different distances and merged in Macro Studio, made a practical exercise in landscape focus stacking.
November 2, 2026 at 7:03 PM
dhphotographyinfo.bsky.social
Two tiny mushrooms with a Springtail creeping between the two cups. These fellas are around 1-2 mm in size and can be tricky to capture!

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#Fungi #CupFungi #Mycology #Springtail #MacroPhotography #ExtremeMacro #FocusStacking #TinyWorld #NaturePhotography #WoodlandWildlife
October 31, 2026 at 7:35 PM
dustymcdusterson.bsky.social
I love finding the bolete eater! This one did not disappoint!
Hypomyces chrysospermus on a singular now impossible to ID species of bolete. #FocusStacking #FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography #FungiFriday
A bolete covered in a bright creamy yellow fungus known as the Bolete Eater, Hypomyces chrysospermus. The little nodules under the cap are part of this invading fungus. The mushroom stank to the high heavens as expected. A focus stacked composite of 22 pictures.
October 30, 2026 at 6:07 PM
dustymcdusterson.bsky.social
A Russula pair showing their age. From last weekend's foray into Banner Forest Heritage Park. #FocusStacking #FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography #FungiFriday
A pair of Russula pose in the moss covered trail edge. THe left one's cap appears to be nearly fully desiccated with the gills showing their beautiful wavy pattern due to the cap drying out. The one on the right is a little more plump with moisture even if it the cap and gills show some evidence of predation by slugs.
October 30, 2026 at 6:12 PM
dustymcdusterson.bsky.social
A few odds and ends from last few weekends in Banner Forest Heritage Park. #FocusStacking #FungiFriends #Fungi #NaturePhotography #FungiFriday

With the last post of pics from earlier this month I'm off for another foray in my local forest. We've had some decent rain this week so🤞for more fungi!!
October 30, 2026 at 6:22 PM
naturaelapides.bsky.social
Köttigite is a phosphate named by Dana himself, in honour of the German chemist Köttig, hence the retention of the “¨”, which is quite rare.

Here it is in tiny spheres (0.5 mm) of the most beautiful pink!

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sphères roses de kottigite sphères roses de kottigite sphères roses de kottigite
October 29, 2026 at 6:25 AM
naturaelapides.bsky.social
One of the latest additions to the collection. I didn't adjust the image's saturation, but I may have gone a little overboard with the lighting in all directions. In any case, it really brings out the deep green color of this aegirine!

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Pointes d'aegirine vert profond
October 28, 2026 at 10:17 AM
naturaelapides.bsky.social
Is it vanadinite? Not at all! It’s aragonite that forms these beautiful hexagonal crystals, stacked in all directions.

This specimen comes from the Spanish region of Aragon, which gave the mineral its name.

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empilement de cristaux hexagonaux rouge d'aragonite
October 27, 2026 at 4:59 AM
dustymcdusterson.bsky.social
An animation of the 44 pictures that went into making the first image in this post. #Animation #GIF #FocusStacking #FungiFriends
October 25, 2026 at 8:09 PM
naturaelapides.bsky.social
It’s #TeamPoison for this #MineralMonday with a beautiful specimen of orpiment and realgar.

[In France, far-right militiamen have colluded with the police to beat up protesters in around ten towns]

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realgar rouge et orpiment doré
October 26, 2026 at 5:51 AM
sophiecarr.bsky.social
Finally some mushrooms and fungi have appeared!

A month later than last year, but not surprising given the dry summer and early autumn. Loving focus stacking, although rather time-consuming; ended up using HeliconFocus software.

#Berkhamsted #FocusStacking #mushrooms
Pointy capped mushroom with long thin stem, with some leaf litter and moss below. A little family of brown mushrooms with long stems and some moss below, green blur in background. Candlesnuff fungus - weird little fingers that are black at the bottom, then grey and white. An oak leaf on some star moss. The leaf is pale brown and covered in little brown round growths.
October 25, 2026 at 9:40 PM