Beautiful mushroom from the Haagse Bos. A forest in autumn is an ideal place for a photographer or artist to indulge and be inspired. Due to the wet autumn weather, there were many mushrooms of all shapes and sizes, eager to be captured in the beautiful autumn light.
Mushrooms inspire me because of all the stories about what hallucinatory effects they can have, to get alienated by them myself soberly. In addition, mushrooms also appear in many fairy tales and saws with wonderful fantasy creatures. Those stories also greatly inspire me to add alienating and fairy-tale effects to pictures of mushrooms.
In this case, alienation would have been a waste of the beautiful light. The mushroom has been highlighted by the sun. Nature highlights the beautiful nature. The beauty in this case is its own simplicity. Thanks to the sun for showing this so beautifully.
I am a hobby photographer who loves travel photography, street photography and taking portraits of people whose faces alone tell a whole story. I love capturing beautiful colours and shapes, but also the stillness and impermanence life and of things... Read more…