The forest is always dark. Not necessarily for the eyes, but for the camera. And especially when it is cloudy or raining as in the last couple of days. But I had to go to the woods. I had a feeling the mushrooms had arrived. And I was right. So I picked some, and tried to do some pictures too. In the “dark”.
A couple of porcinis, Boletus edulis, went home with me.
Also different kinds of russulas. It is hard to know the different kinds of russulas, but they are never poisenous and I know how to find out which one is edible.
These ones I actually don’t know, except there is an old russula to the right.
The brown fly agaric mushroom is poisonous, like the red one. There are a lot of them in my mushroom woods and it is an interesting mushroom, but I never pick it of course. In the picture below, you can see how it looked the day before. So they can grow and unfold quite fast. So I shouldn’t wait too long before going back to the woods. And by the way: NEVER pick a mushroom to eat if you don’t know what you are doing.
Bente, these mushrooms are beautiful. No mushrooms in the desert, unfortunately!
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No problem there, Bente. As much as I LOVE eating them, I wouldn’t know the first thing about poisonous from non-poisonous, so I’ll leave it to my local supermarket to decide. 😉
Nonetheless, these are a work of art. So pretty.
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It seems to be official now – autumn is coming……mushroom season. Farewell summer. 😦 But I love porcinis! 🙂 And your first/last picture is very handsome.
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It looks a magical excursion to the woods. I’ve never seen so many kind of mushroom.
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Fantastic photos. The link to mushrooms of Norway is interesting. I’m glad you included it. Very informative, thanks
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Oh I love this!
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I’ve never seen such lovely mushrooms like those in your pictures. Some of them reminds me to fairy’s houses in children fairy tales 🙂
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Mushroom picking is a wonderful way to spend a day, but yes, you do have to be careful and only pick what you know. Best to go with an expert friend.
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This is a wonderful gallery Bente. !
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Is it just me, or does anyone else expect a gnome or a fairy to pop up just around the corner?! Beautifully done Bente!
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Wow, looks exiting !
(In the Woods around the mountain shelter, we did hunting of them a lots !)
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How amazing, great photos and story, I have never seen mushrooms like that before like a fairytale.You have really turned those mushrooms into a piece of artwork.
cheers Callie
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I could smell the perfume of these mushrooms! Great post Bente..just curious to know how do you cook Porcinis in your country (if you cook them of course)..
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I’m a big fan of fungi photography so enjoyed these a lot. Thanks Bente.
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Magical!!! What a gift to have knowledge of mushrooms like this!
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how beautiful photographs you captured dear Bente, loved them all. Thank you, love, nia
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Lovely photos, Bente.
There’s something special when photographers get down low and photograph from ground level. You get that wonderful sense of magic and fairytales. Very nice DOF too.
Glad you know which are the edible ones and which are the poisonous ones. I’d never be game to try picking any mushrooms in the wild.
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Nice pics of that mushroomes. They have reallly some kind of magic.
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I remember going mushroom hunting as a girl with friends and family who knew what they were doing. Now I wish I had learned the art of knowing which ones were edible.
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Beautiful nature, very well captured… 🙂
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I can smell that damp pine aroma all the way across here in the U.K. Send some more please!
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Magical photos, Bente! 🙂
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Wonderful photos of mushrooms!
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Beautiful photos Bente, this mushrooms are realy magic!
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Fantastiska bilder Bente!
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Great photos, Bente!!
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Mushrooms are fascinating things!
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I’ve never seen mushrooms this beautiful! Magical!
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I only eat mushrooms I can buy from the store as I have no idea what is edible “out there.” Lovely photos, Bente!
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Nice work here! Love the close-ups showing colors and details, like a whole new world unfolds before our eyes.
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Det er nu et dejligt lys, der er i din skov, Bente 🙂 Flotte billeder som sædvanligt!
Introduktionen til svampe i Norge er meget god, et godt link.
De bedste hilsner,
Hanna
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Great images… makes me wonder how did our ancestors figure out which food was poisonous and which wasn’t!
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Some nice pictures of our fungi friends!
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At least the change of seasons and end of summer might have some compensations. Beautiful photos as always.
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Wawwwwww very beautiful woods and a lot of fungi
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Good for you for foraging for mushrooms, I wouldn’t know what to look for. I do love mushrooms, though!
Beautiful images from your dark forest, Bente ( I know what you mean by that darkness).
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Ooh, this really reminds me of the Brothers Grimm 😉
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Loving the variety of mushrooms in your captures:)
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These are fantastic mushroom images Bente ! I am so jealous on how well you did these. Did you use a flash or reflector? Mine always show up muddy looking. Great foraging.
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Wow. These are amazing. Such a variety. Their form, and colour, against the background is reminescent of fairy tales, come to life. Thanks so much. These forests are a feast for the eyes, maybe not so much for the stomach, if the shrooms are poisonous!
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Beautiful photos. How did you learn to identify the mushrooms? Did you learn when you were very young?
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Great captures! Your timing had to be spot on to get these 🙂
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now i know i will order some mushroom for food. thats for sure. 😉
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That looks so lush and green beneath the trees! I long for some of that rain again here.
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¡Fantásticas fotos, Bente!!!
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The image of the forest is exceptional, Bente. Those greens are perfect.
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Bellas imágenes…
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J’attends la prochaine pluie et j’irai voir dans la forêt pour trouver bolets et chanterelles. Bon appétit. Val
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Just beautiful and fairytale…
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http://andreasch45.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/komm-deinemengelnicht-ins-gehege/
For you Sunday
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These mushrooms so different colours. Thanks for sharing!
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Great photos!
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Thanks, Geedebee.
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This is a funny gum Oracle.
The saying is,
What fun for you on Monday.
The quote is:
nothing ventured nothing can win
Have a nice Woche.Herzlichst Andrea
http://andreasch45.WordPress.com/2013/02/26/kaugummiorakel/
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Have a nice week too, Andrea. Thanks for your comment.
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MANY**HUGS**
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Your forest is very pretty and I am a fan of the less intense light to be found in the woods. The photos and the mushrooms are magical indeed!
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Yes it is a special kind of colour in the woods. Some times the camera don’t want to cooperate without a tripod, which I rarely carry. Thanks, Barbara.
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Mushrooms delicious and dangerous, but always beautiful. Un abrazo.
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Absolutely right. Thanks a lot, Antonio. Gracias. Un abrazo too.
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Lovely selection of mushrooms Benthe, a veritable feast (except for the Amanita’s). How do you tell which Russulas are edible?
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I chew on a very small bit of the gills or whatever it is called in english (the white just under the hat). If the taste is like pepper I throw it away, if it has a mild taste it goes home. This method is not for the beginner. I might even be a completely different mushroom than Russula… Thanks, Finn.
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That’s a nice collection of mushroom images, Bente. Now we know the Norwegian words sopp and skog. Neither of them seemed to resemble any English words, but then I found a website that indicates a relationship between sopp and the English words swamp and sump, both of which were likely borrowed from Low German. I guess the connection has to do with the watery nature of a mushroom and the fact that mushrooms grow in humid places.
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Bente, these are gorgeous. You have such a diverse selection of mushrooms. We don’t get many here – it’s too dry.
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Bente-Czarodziej fotografii.
Cudownie pięknel
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Love the whole series! 🙂
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I watched the complete folder..its really amazing….am also trying to do so…its such a tuff task to set your (own self) eyes in a macro mode to catch the unseen beauty of nature..:)
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I agree with you, it is so exciting to bend down, lay down and see the nature with a macro lens. Thanks for your comment, Joshi.
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yeah..its my pleasure..:)
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🙂 most welcome
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These are just unbelievable Bente! Have never seen better shots of toadstools!!!
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Beautiful shots! Nice use of DOF:)
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indeed MAGIC!
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Amazing shots!
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Always been fascinated by mushrooms and toad stools great photos
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Is not a Brown Fly agaric is amanita pantera . nice Boletes 🙂
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Thanks for your view, but it might not be a pantera, because they are not known form this part of the country, but only in southern Norway. The Brown Fly Agaric is known to have a variety of colours here. But still, southern species can be on their way north?
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