Mission Accomplished at Brandon

The only thing that I definitely offered for the RPS Workshop on fungi at Brandon  yesterday was over 30 years of visiting and hence a lot of knowledge of what species are found where and when. Brandon fulfilled this promise with lots of colourful and attractive species from the Porcelain fungi up on the beech branches to the colourful Mycena haematopus, Fly agarics and Amethyst Deceivers. We tried different lighting and experimental  techniques - some not yet quite mastered like the 'toadstool in the Bokeh'. We even found lots of Slime Mould -  though probably only one species.

Playing with Shallow Depth of Field

Toft Photoclub met in the church yesterday evening to get to know our cameras especially regarding aperture and depth of field. I used the Olympus manual lens mostly at F1.8 and played with getting interesting out-of-focus backgrounds. Last image of the roof angel at F8.