Taylor Lockwood
2018 November General Meeting: Taylor Lockwood — Taylor's Last Tour? (by )
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NOTE: MEETING IS ON TUESDAY, RATHER THAN THE USUAL WEDNESDAY, DUE TO THANKSGIVING
Please join us for our General Meeting at the Harvey West Scout House. This month's speaker will be Taylor Lockwood, internationally renowned mushroom photographer...
January General Meeting with Taylor Lockwood
Please join us for our General Meeting at the Harvey West Scout House. We are pleased to have Taylor Lockwood as our presenter. A world-renowned mushroom photographer, Taylor's work has been published internationally, most recently in the May 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Note: this meeting is a week earlier than our usual third Wednesday of the month meeting date.
A Quirk of Fate (by Taylor Lockwood)
After taking my camera and passion for bioluminescent mushrooms around the world, I was pleased to find some "glowers" in my little town of Mount Dora, Florida. I had only seen them once before so an uncommon bloom of these "Jill o' Lanterns" (Omphalotus subilludens) got me right into gear.
These are the cousins to the "Jack o' Lanterns" (Omphalotus illudens) known up and down the east coast and into parts west. According to Jim Kimbrough's book on Florida mushrooms, it wasn't known to be bioluminescent.
I had found some two years ago and I did document the dim greenish glow and, I believe, they were the first such photos of O. subilludens.