Red mushrooms on a log.
Are these mushrooms? Or some other kind of fungus? Whatever they are, they look nice against the texture of their fallen log home, lit by a stray ray of sunlight.
Random Fridays: Mushrooms on a log
Month: June 2017
The fleeting glory of a sunset
Transient sunset beauty
Last night’s sunset was stunning, with wisps of pink cloud burning bright in the sun’s dying rays, and a deep blue sky. Would we be so taken with sunsets (and sunrises) if their beauty were not so transient?
Random Fridays: I’m glad they’re small!
These blue crabs look pretty scary, but they’re only about the size of the end of my finger. I didn’t even spot them initially while walking along mud flats at Ettalong at low tide — it was the plop-plop-plop of millions of tiny feet that caught my attention. The more I looked, the more I was astonished. There were hundreds of thousands of these things! For those of you of a scientific bent, they are Mictyris longicarpus (light-blue soldier crab) I think.
As the heading says, I’m glad they are small. And not looking for a fight!
The next two shots give an idea of the numbers:
Random Fridays: Prism
This faceted globe of glass looks unassuming, but put in the path of sunlight and it takes on a whole new life. It throws rainbow shapes around the room (as in the feature image), and if I spin the globe I have my own private disco as the colours go whirling around.
As you can imagine, it was difficult to focus on these rays of coloured light. I quite like the “smeared” results, though!
Random Fridays: Gotta get the shot
I didn’t know whether to laugh at this young man’s foolhardiness or applaud his dedication. This is in Bouddi National Park, which is north of Sydney — stunning, as you can see, but not worth risking one’s life to capture a photo.
