Fungi
The City Daily Photo theme for June is “The Beauty of Decay”. Click here to see contributions of participants around the world.
Instead of a self portrait, I offer examples from our natural environment.
Decay of wood is mostly caused by fungi, unseen until the fruiting bodies emerge. The ones shown are quite likely the fruiting bodies of the honey mushroom Armillaria Novae Zealandiae but I am not very familiar with fungi. They grew on a fallen kanuka tree in the bush.
Armillaria Novae Zealandiae?
June 2, 2013 at 7:19 am
“Instead of a self portrait” – “giggles”
Love those mushrooms, especially the view from down under!
June 2, 2013 at 7:19 am
No self portrait, haha. I wonder if anyone will do that today.
These mushroom photos are beautiful, especially the unexpected bottom view!
June 2, 2013 at 7:38 am
You’ve made a great Theme Day post. The self-portrait part made me smile.
June 2, 2013 at 8:35 am
What amazing images. Thank you for commenting in Coventry.
June 2, 2013 at 8:42 am
In the thumbnail photo, it looked like they were dandelions
June 2, 2013 at 9:21 am
Oui ! Très originale illustration du thème.
Les champignons ne sont-ils pas les grosses moisissures de la décrépitude ?
June 2, 2013 at 9:27 am
Oh these are great macros. Clever interpretation of the theme today!
V
June 2, 2013 at 10:32 am
From underneath they look like fireworks. Very nice!
June 2, 2013 at 10:46 am
wonderful photos!!
June 2, 2013 at 11:18 am
Very pretty fungi
June 2, 2013 at 11:36 am
some of the prettiest decay I’ve seen so far!
June 2, 2013 at 11:56 am
What a wonderful view of the mushrooms – from underneath. They look like an explosion of tiny Ferris wheels. Great post for the theme. I also was considering a self-portrait – it would at least be somewhat accurate phonetically in its title: The beauty of de Kay.”
June 2, 2013 at 1:43 pm
Haha, you picked a great one – I’ve never seen such pretty mushrooms! Love the perspective.
June 2, 2013 at 4:31 pm
Ooh funghi! they are quite pretty
June 2, 2013 at 7:13 pm
Cute mushrooms! You have captured them very well in these photo.
June 2, 2013 at 8:49 pm
I find this quite artistic!
Nice and interesting posting.
June 2, 2013 at 10:32 pm
Wonderful photos, especially the first one!
June 3, 2013 at 1:33 am
Great mushies.
June 3, 2013 at 2:32 am
The self-portrait would have been a good choice for many of us, but you really picked something different and original!
June 3, 2013 at 2:55 pm
Wonderful photos!!! Such delicate things to create such decay!!!
June 3, 2013 at 7:33 pm
So beautiful! And me too, I thought they were dandelions in the thumbnail 😉
June 4, 2013 at 11:49 pm
Fantastic photo. Love the angle.
June 5, 2013 at 8:48 pm
Now that top photo is spectacular. Congratulations!
(none of us apparently has dared go down the “human decay” path… not brave enough !)
June 5, 2013 at 8:50 pm
Hmmm, we are all going down that path – just not showing photographic evidence!
June 5, 2013 at 10:18 pm
Outstanding shot on top! Love it. Great take on the theme.