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Bitter Bolete


Bitter Bolete
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Copyright: Jan Gaisler (honza) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 537 W: 0 N: 716] (4191)
Genre: Fungi
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-08-09
Categories: Fungi
Exposure: f/5.0, 1/90 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-08-12 3:24
Viewed: 1154
Points: 14
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Bitter Bolete (Tylopilus felleus)

Cap: 5-30 cm, convex to broadly convex or nearly flat in age; dry; smooth, unpolished; sometimes becoming cracked; brown to tan, usually with cinnamon shades, becoming paler in age.
Pore Surface: Whitish becoming pinkish to flesh-colored; sometimes bruising brownish; pores circular, 1-2 per mm; tubes to 2 cm.
Stem: 4-20 cm long; 1-3 cm thick; club-shaped and bulbous; pale above, colored like the cap downward or brown overall; strongly reticulate, at least over upper third; sometimes with olive stains in age.
Taste: Very bitter; odor not distinctive.
Ecology: Mycorrhizal with conifers and, occasionally, with hardwoods; growing alone or scattered; summer and fall.
Location: Europe, North America

For lighting reflection area was used.
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  • halki Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 249 W: 8 N: 105] (469)
  • [2005-08-12 3:31]

Hello Jan!
Very nice capture.Colours and lighting are great.
Thanks for posting.

Hi Jan!
Superb picture! I miss the time when in my father's forest I could find fungi.

But I couldn't eat THIS!

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  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2705 W: 74 N: 8864] (30243)
  • [2005-08-12 7:00]

Big trophy Jan! I like this fat fungus very much, its detailed surface and warm colours. Composition with smaller fungi on BG is also very nice. Good work!

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  • Graal Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 755 W: 31 N: 20] (5032)
  • [2005-08-12 9:04]

Hi jan,
my favorite fungi. Good capture, nice colours. Good job.
Rgs, Aleksander

I know this fellow well.
Sometimes you think you've just found a tasty trophy and when you get closer you realize it's something quite different.
Not so pleasant surprise for mushroom lovers.
Photo is great, has perfect composition and superb ligth.
WELL DONE & TFS

Ahhhh, nice fungi and good use of refacted light. Good POV and DOF, the background is good.

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  • TAZ Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2241 W: 47 N: 3167] (10926)
  • [2005-09-17 2:50]

What a beautiful and interesting Bolete that you have well captured ! Composition, POV, warm colors, DOF, details and sharpness are very good ! Thanks for sharing Jan.

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