Photo Of the Month

We know many of you are out in the field, camera in hand, taking beautiful, interesting, awe-inspiring or just plain quirky images. They may be coffee-table-book-beautiful, show a field guide level of detail, or convey the sheer joy of mushrooming. Let’s share them! Enter your choice pics in the Fungus Federation’s Photo of the Month contest. Winning images (editor’s choice) will be posted on the FFSC website and may be used in a FFSC publication. Your images will not be used for commercial purposes.

Submitting Images

We will source images from those submitted on the FFSC Google Group as well as individually submitted images. Images can be submitted via email to <http://ffsc.us/e?q=BTEhKgV-2FGBEuUzYLM0YiFzMzZzU0_596>.

Technical Criteria

Please send an image that does not have EXIF metadata stripped off or just full-sized original image if you are unsure. Acceptable formats: anything but RAW files.

Information Required

  • Photographer’s name
  • Title for image, if any
  • Optional: Date, Latin Binomial
  • Give us few words about the collection if you’d like. Rough location, habitat, did you leave them in the field or bring home? If edible, how did you prepare them?

Past Photos Of the Month

March, 2017

"The Turkey Tail" by Meryl Wilsker

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Found at Rancho San Antonio Park in Los Altos, California.  This particular Turkey Tail was approximately  6-7 inches across sitting on the very top of a tree stump/log with smaller Turkey Tails up and down the trunk...

February, 2017

"Mushy Acorn" by Anisa Etemadi

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Date: December 11, 2016
Camera: Apple iPhone 6s
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Focal Length: 4 mm
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This acorn was found under a decomposing log in the Santa Cruz mountains. The photo was taken by Anisa Etemadi and the acorn was found by Zac Vavoulis.


We believe they are hymenoscyphus fructigenus, a saprobic mushroom found on only certain nuts!

January, 2017

"Fuchsi" by Joshua Becker

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Found in Big Basin along the Skyline-to-Sea Trail. Wet weather.  Hygrocybe coccinea
 
You can go here to see our article on MOM (Mushroom of the month) on waxy caps to get more information on these lovely mushrooms.
 

December, 2016

"Purple Slime" by Sam Betty

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Taken by FFSC member, now living in Sonoma.  Taken with iPhone 6

Cortinarius sp.  This can be seen at Salt Point

 

November, 2016

"Clathrus ruber" by Anne Elvin

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It is nice to know that although my family is not quite excited about mushrooms as I am; I have made a difference where when they see an interesting fungus, they let me know.

Texted to me from a Palo Alto Elementary School.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrus_ruber

 

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