Instead of enjoying Paris car-free day on Sunday (which was my first weekend plan), I decided to make a trip to the nearby forest of St Germain en Laye. I had somehow already explored it, but the upcoming autumn added quite an interesting ingredient to its usual attractive features: thanks to the preceding rainy days, mushrooms had been hastily growing under dead leaves or next to old logs and tree stumps, and they were beginning to show their heads just above the ground. Perfect moment to have a stroll in the woods and set up a mushroom quest & photo competition :-)
Looking for mushrooms was no easy task though. Small as they were, and often similar in color to dead leaves and musty logs, it was a real challenge to notice them. Especially while crossing thorn bushes with bare arms. Still, the battle was totally worth it - rather in terms of photography than of actual harvest, since the few mushrooms we gathered had taken a rather disgusting blue color due to oxidation. We just threw them in the middle of the road and escaped like caught culprits at the sight of approaching walkers...
Here are a few pictures of my photography loot!
Mushrooms on a log
Beetle under the light
Spinning its web
No comments :
Post a Comment