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Which mushrooms do you pick for your photos?
Basically I have concentrated on faster creatures. Plants and mushrooms haven’t been very frequent models. Usually I ramble around with a long objective and most mushroom photographing is still to come. As with everything a nudge from somewhere is needed. I have noticed that after last autumn’s mushroom camp I already stop more often at mushrooms.

Do you have some recent mushroom discoveries?
A rather late discovery is the puffballs. At home they were not eaten. It was simply that nobody had told us about them. The nice thing is that nearly all puffballs growing here are edible. I fry them in butter, thinly sliced. Very nice!

The photo surprise however came from the scrambled eggs slime mold. Sometimes it is good to work with mushrooms on a windy day, especially the shelf fungi. They won’t sway as the plants do. You can expose at your leisure and spend an enjoyable time. But the scrambled eggs slime mold is a mobile thing. And I didn’t know that it was so to such a degree! I set up a longish exposure and noticed that it wasn’t focused sharply enough. I reset focus and shutter but it was still somehow smudgy. Then, checking the sequence of exposures I got a surprise. The fungus had made itself unfocused by moving!