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Copyright: Tina Sieben (gypsygirl58) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 101 W: 0 N: 138] (426)
Genre: Fungi
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-05-12
Camera: Pentax K100D, Sigma 18-50 f3.5/5.6 DC
Exposure: f/9.5, 1/125 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2007-05-13 22:25
Viewed: 603
Points: 10
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
I took this photo whilst down at Victor Harbor with a friend. I have no idea unfortunately what type of fungi it is. I just liked the look of it, it was growing under the pine trees. In the workshop I have posted another photo of the same fungi opened up. If anyone knows what it is that would be great!

PP Work:
RAW to JPEG
Cropped the image a tad
Altered the brightness and contrast levels a tad
Sharpened the image

Thanks for looking and for your comments and critiques! Cheers Tina :-)
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Hi,
It is a Coprinus comatus, original of European descent, but introduced into Australia and New Zealand. It's called Shaggy ink cap in English.

Hi Tina,
These Coprinus Comatus look superb with the light shining on them, the bits of the pine tree that surround them add interest too. Nice.
Cheers,
Debbie

Hello Tina a fine shot with good pov and composition never seen anything like it! interesting tfs rgds Necip.

Hi Tina,
Nice point of view for this beautiful cluster of Coprinus. It is a bit overexposed, but I know by experience how difficult are to capture with sun shining on them.

About the Id. I thin Hans might be right with Coprinus comatus, but in THIS post I made some time ago, the master Marco [Sarcodon] made the following suggestion, which I think can be very suitable for your picture:

" There is another specie very closed to Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müller 1767) Gray 1797, more than Coprinus atramentarius (Bulliard 1786) Fries 1838, so that a lot of people confuse it: it is Coprinus vosoustii Pilát 1942.
C. vosoustii is very closed to C. comatus, sometimes they seem identical, but whit experience it is possible identify them:

a) C. comatus is deliquescent (fastly), C. vosoustii is deliquescent too, but very slowly, after 2 or 3 days.
b) C. comatus hasn't got a central disc with star shape (or very rarely), C. vosoustii has a typical star cover on the disc of the cap, always present and persistent.
c) Others differences are microscopic.

All people (and, unfortunately, a lot of books) say that C. vosoustii is very rare, but this is because they don't recognize it. In truth it is locally quite common in Europe.

you can see for example (it's a single link):
http://images.google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://www.grzyby.pl/foto/mj/mj-CoprinusVosoustii-0746.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.grzyby.pl/gatunki/Coprinus_vosoustii.htm&h=520&w=311&sz=55&hl=it&start=2&tbnid=LthdIMZLCIq-OM:&tbnh=131&tbnw=78&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcoprinus%2Bvosoustii%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Dit%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG

By
Marco (Sarcodon)"

Hope this helps,
Regards, Felipe.

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  • arfer Gold Star Critiquer [C: 2731 W: 0 N: 0] (0)
  • [2007-05-22 7:59]

Hello Tina

A very interesting shot of this fungi.The workshop was not what I was expecting.Well composed little grouping,basked in a warm light.Well focused with good details.Well seen.TFS

Rob
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