The Blues Brothers #1 (Entoloma hochstetteri)

THE SUBJECT:
A very rare find. Two fine specimens of the fruiting body of the Entoloma hochstetteri fungus in the natural light of a slightly overcast autumn day.

THE LOCATION:
Along a track in the Kattang Nature Reserve, Dunbogan, NSW, Australia.

THE MAKING of ‘The Blues Brothers #1 (Entoloma hochstetteri)’:
Out on a fungi hunt with a Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club mate, we were only 150 metres from the car park when we saw the beautiful blue of these fungi poking up from the leaf litter.
As I had never seen any blues in my almost four years of fungi hunting, I was as excited as a kid at Christmas with this find.
This photograph is brought to you after much pain and discomfort as I was bitten by a bull ant, my mate was bitten by a leech and we were both bitten by mosquitoes. The things we do…..!
Fuji S9600: RAW, Super macro, Manual settings of f/3.6 @ 1/60sec, Manual focus, ISO80, Timer, Camera on ground.
Lightroom 1.1 & Photoshop CS3.

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NOTE:
I lightened the image slightly and gave the saturation a little tweak for printing on Ilford Galerie Smooth Gloss Media and it did a marvellous job on the blues.

UPDATE: 23-04-09
The Blues Brothers has been featured in the Fungilicious Group.

UPDATE: 1-7-09
The Brothers have WON the Fungilicious Group’s *Colour – Blue Challenge.

UPDATE: 18-7-09
This fungi study has been featured in the “Endangered Plants Group”.

Enjoy!

FUNGI: KATTANG
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Entoloma hochstetteri – The Blues Brothers #1