Once again I venture out in to the Australian Botanical Gardens, Mount Annan. After two weeks of rain there are little much rooms starting to stick their heads up everywhere, Today I started by going to an area known as the Wollemi walk of discovery an small walking track here they have planted several of the rear and endangered Wollemi pines, this area often has several types of mushrooms growing so a small area that will give me a variety, however today there was only one very tine one just starting to grow, This is the same spot where to took the Orange mushrooms growing on the small vertical dirt wall, so again they are starting to grow again after the rain, that shot (The first shot in my mushroom gallery in my under the portfolio tab).  A side note today the gardens announced the winners of their Budding photographer competition and that shot won the Up close and person category, so that’s two years running now my Mushroom shots have taken out that category. So I managed to get a few shots of this little mushroom and think over the next few weeks as it grows I’ll get a few more. You’ll notice from this behind the scenes shot the camera was balanced of a rock with water flowing around it so still quite wet around the gardens at present.

I then went walk-a-bout around the gardens for a while before returning back to the normal patch where I took three separate sets of shots on three different mushrooms. From the behind the scenes shots you’ll notice the small wooden blocks I carry around to level the camera to assist in framing the shot, it helps to raise the camera body at times even with the camera on the ground depending on the location of the mushroom and the slop of the ground. So I got four separate mushroom shots today so a good day plus some pocket money from the competition so all up a good day in the gardens today.

Thanks for dropping by,

Glenn