Mycena interrupta

[John Cooper]

These tiny blue mushrooms were photographed in rainforest on the southern coast of Victoria, Australia. The tallest specimen would be less than an inch tall.

Canon EOS 5, Canon 100mm macro, ISO 50, Flash 550EX x 2, F22, Tripod.

[Ed Vatza]

There's almost an irridescent quality to the blue and particularly around the base of the stem. Very neat. Excellent image. Looks very sharp to me. No distractions in the background. And you've managed to capture the dark environment in which mushrooms grow very well with your dual flashes. Good job.

[David Steele]

An exquisite image, perfectly captured.

[Robert Amoruso]

Excellent image John. One of your best so far. The mushrooms look electrified. Nice use of the flashes.

[intoit]

What a cool bunch of mushrooms and such a great capture of them! Love the blue, I never seen anything like it - orange is about as exciting ones we get here. I really like the way the delicate stems look like they're almost floating instead of rooted in the ground! Very cool!!

[Robert O'Toole]

One of my favorites John, very very good. The fungi look like they are glowing. The flash were so skillfully used that the image looks like it was naturally lit.

Thanks for posting.

Robert

[Blake Shadle]

I'm jealous of anyone who gets an opportunity to make images of these little fungi... The color is outstanding. Maybe a little more room at the bottom so the small mushroom to the left isn't so close to the edge of the frame. Very nice work.

[Matthew Pugh]

Hi
Quite an amazing colour upon these fungi and such a nice composition of this fine group - I think this work very well indeed
All the best
Matthew

[Mike Moats]

Hey John, very cool fungi, I've never seen colors like this in srooms. Excellent sharp detils and nice job on the DOF. Well done.

[D. Robert Franz]

Stunningly nice image here John. I might have liked jsut a bit more rooom along the bottom of the frame...