Mushrooms growing on tree stump - Infrared Photography

This stump is all that remains, though life will continue to grow from it. The bark of the former tree is food for wood loving mushrooms. It was covered in them, though not sure what kind they were exactly.

Growing around the base of the stump was a ground level plant covering the area. It only got up a few inches but covered the space around the tree giving it a meadow like appearance. This area was by a stream in a campground that I was visiting.

These photos are my posts for #fungifriday

Camera Model

Lumix GH3, modified by LifePixel for Full Spectrum

Lens

Olympus M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12mm-50mm

Filter

850nm Infrared Passthrough filter

Aperture

f/3.5

Shutter Speed

1/80 sec

Film Speed

200

Spectrum

Infrared (IR)

Wavelength

850 nanometers

Location

Wildcat Creek Campground, Georgia USA.

Looks like whoever cut the tree had a small blade and had to cut it from both sides, giving it a funny look at where it was cut. The ground cover plants were lighting up the background around the stump reflecting infrared light.

A close up on the side of the stump, the wood loving mushrooms can be seen growing. Along with some moss on the bark as well.

Looks like something has been munching on some of the caps of the mushrooms. I wonder what kind it is, I should have looked under them to see what the gills look like to better identify them.

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I take pictures with a special camera. Its a Mirrorless DSLR that has been modified by Life Pixel to see light in other wavelengths. This allows my camera to see light in the Infrared [IR] around 1300 NM wavelength, through the visual spectrum and into the Ultraviolet A and B wavelengths roughly into the 300 NM wavelength.

I carry many filters on me to make the photos you see in my blog, these filters screw on my lens and help me isolate certain wavelengths for certain scenes. These filters can be IR / UV pass-through filters to assist me get a natural photo taking out the UV and IR light. Or I may use a Infrared pass-through filter capture just IR light. I can do the same with UV light as well, though I need some better filters which they can cost a few hundred dollars for true Ultraviolet pass through filters. So for right now I have B + W 403 bandpass filters that still allow some IR light in, due to their cheaper material.

There are also exotic glasses made of sapphire and germanium I am open to working with to replace my silica glass hot mirror with a material that allows even longer wavelengths of infrared to enter my cameras sensor. Special sensors, lenses and filters of that material would be needed as well, so it would be a big project but one that may give some even more unique photography results.

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