Beautiful estranged 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 sagas with wonderful fantasy creatures. Those stories also greatly inspire me to add alienating and fairy-tale effects to photos's of mushrooms. In this, I would almost expect a fairy to come along like this.
The editing now also makes the image easier to combine with an interior. Despite the bright colours, the image has become calmer from the image processing.
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…