101: Wood Shrooms

What mushrooms are these? I thought they might be sulphur tufts, but I'm not sure.
I didn't expect to see any mushrooms now, what with it being spring. They're mostly around in autumn, by my experience.
I like to get the camera down nice and low for mushrooms; high-angle shots just don't do them justice, and often look amateurish. It's a good thing I had my beanbag with me so I could take a solid shot from the ground. I should invest in an angled viewfinder attachment so I don't have to bend down and see the image twisted round, but it's not really essential. This one came out right first time, so there's my slowly advancing photographic experience making itself known again.

Settings: f/8, 1/25, ISO 100, P-FA 50mm, beanbag.

083: Moss Stalks

This is a 100% crop from some animation I have been doing today; the detail of some wispy stalks in a mat of moss.
A clump of moss from a neglected pot in the garden sits in a firmly-secured box of sand. I carefully picked at and shifted it with a pencil for a couple of hundred frames, pulling apart the mat of moss a little bit more every frame until I finally started to attack it with scissors and mix it with sand until it looked nothing like the moss it once was.
It's now been returned to the garden. The animation turned out pretty good.

Settings: f/5.6, 1/15, ISO 200, 50mm M42, 10mm extension.

069: Frost-Crumbled Brick

Leave a decrepit old brick outside in the winter and ice cracks it up handily. It's a good example of how stiff, bare soil gets loosened by frosts. I can just brush the breadcrumb-like bits off when I'm done; there may be little left of this brick in a few years if we keep having winters like the last one.
The algae and moss adds some bonus detail, as do a few seeds stuck to the side. I tried some shots of only the top area of broken bits, but chose this side shot as I like the difference of the destroyed top and smooth side areas.

Settings: f/16, 1/180, ISO 200, 50mm, 10mm ring, 1/4 flash, foil & white reflectors.