Tag Archives: mushroom

09.16.2020 Bleeding Fairy Helmet

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Steve Gingold

I don’t name ’em…I just photograph them. 🙂 A friend on Facebook posted some huge Amanitas which I then went looking for on Saturday. I did find them but as I have done a few times, I am only mentioning … Continue reading →

Posted in Closeup Photography, Fungi, Mushrooms, Nature Photography, Western Massachusetts | Tagged Bleeding Fairy Helmet, Bleeding Mycena, Burgundy Drops, fungi, fungus, Massachusetts, mushroom, Mycena, Mycena haematopus, New England, western massachusetts | 19 Comments

09.06.2020 Quiet Forest Nature

Posted on September 6, 2020 by Steve Gingold

Common Puffballs aka Gem-Studded Puffballs aka Warted Puffballs aka Wolf Farts aka Devil’s Snuff-box-Lycoperdon perlatum. I went to the pond I visit for sundews yesterday but the buds are still closed tight. There is another flower there I want to … Continue reading →

Posted in Black and White, Closeup Photography, Mushrooms, Nature Photography, Quabbin, Western Massachusetts | Tagged Common Puffballs, Devil's Snuff-box, fungus, Gauco Pond, Gem-Studded Puffballs, Lycoperdon perlatum, Massachusetts, mushroom, New England, North Quabbin, Petersham, puffballs, Quabbin, State Forest Road, Triadenum virginicum, Warted Puffballs, Wolf Farts | 26 Comments

07.04.2020 Hemlock Varnish Conk-Ganoderma tsugae

Posted on July 4, 2020 by Steve Gingold

Although the same species, this is not the same mushroom I posted as an abstract a while back. I went looking for woodland flowers this morning and not much was happening. They must be spent from their glory last year … Continue reading →

Posted in Closeup Photography, Fungi, Nature Photography, Quabbin | Tagged Federated Women's Clubs State Forest, fungus, Ganoderma tsugae, Gate 36, hemlock varnish conk, hemlock varnish shelf, Massachusetts, mushroom, New England, North Quabbin, Petersham, polypore, Quabbin, State Forest Road | 10 Comments

06.13.2020 Fungal Fire

Posted on June 13, 2020 by Steve Gingold

A little abstract fungus something on a warm sunny day in New England. Ganoderma tsugae, along with G. lucidum, are herbal mushrooms used for a variety of applications. I am not an herbalist or a mycologist so that’s all I … Continue reading →

Posted in Abstract, Closeup Photography, Fungi, macro photography, Nature Photography, Patterns in Nature, Quabbin | Tagged conk, fungus, Ganoderma tsugae, hemlock varnish conk, hemlock varnish shelf, herbal fungus, Massachusetts, mushroom, New England, Petersham, polypore, Quabbin, reishi, shelf mushroom, western massachusetts | 25 Comments

04.28.2020-2 Violet-toothed Polypore-Trichaptum biforme

Posted on April 28, 2020 by Steve Gingold

Here’s another from the archives that never made it to here for some reason. The day I found these I was photographing cascades along Amethyst Brook and most likely too absorbed with those shots. Better late than never, I guess.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bracket fungus, mushroom, New England, Pelham, polypore, shelf fungus, Trichaptum biforme, Violet-toothed Polypore, western massachusetts | 33 Comments

04.06.2020 A Monday morning fave

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Steve Gingold

Here’s another favorite from the archives. I shared it a few years ago and probably told the story behind it then. But I am known to repeat my stories as I can never remember to whom I told them. One … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cerioporus squamosus, Creeping Charlie, fungus, Gill o'er the ground, gill over the ground, Glechoma hederacea, ground ivy, Hadley, Massachusetts, mushroom, New England, partridge back fungus, polypore, Polyporus squamosus, shelf fungus, shelf mushroom, western massachusetts | 36 Comments

03.18.2020-2 Tinder Conks on a Fallen Birch

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Steve Gingold

Also known as Hoof Conks, Fomes fomentarius is a polypore fungus that lives up to its name…or got its name because it can hold a burning coal inside the pores on the underside for hours and be used to start … Continue reading →

Posted in Closeup Photography, Fungi, macro photography, Mushrooms, Nature Photography, Western Massachusetts | Tagged Fomes fomentarius, fungus, Massachusetts, mushroom, New England, Pelham, polypore, western massachusetts | 23 Comments

01.13.2020-3 Monochrome Monday

Posted on January 13, 2020 by Steve Gingold

Got three M’s going today and the first time that I have posted three in one day as well. So this is another experiment but with the 180. It’s obviously a mushroom but, to paraphrase Minor White, what else is … Continue reading →

Posted in Abstract, Black and White, Closeup Photography, Fungi, Mushrooms, Nature Photography | Tagged Black and White photography, fungus, mushroom, Oyster Mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus | 27 Comments

01.13.2020 Mushroom Monday

Posted on January 13, 2020 by Steve Gingold

Just a lovely oyster mushroom in Quabbin. It was misting yesterday morning and I thought it was worth getting out and seeing whatever I could see. Well, it rained fairly hard for a short time and things got pretty wet, … Continue reading →

Posted in Closeup Photography, Fungi, Mushrooms, Nature Photography, Quabbin | Tagged fungus, late fall oyster mushroom, Massachusetts, mushroom, New England, New Salem, Oyster Mushroom, Panellus serotinus, Quabbin, western massachusetts | 21 Comments

11.21.2019 OY! It’s an oyster.

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Steve Gingold

Oyster Mushroom, that is. A couple from the archives. Oddly, I’ve shot oyster mushrooms-Pleurotus ostreatus many times but haven’t shared them on the blog.

Posted in Fungi, Mushrooms, Nature Photography | Tagged fungus, mushroom, Oyster Mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus | 25 Comments