A group of honey mushrooms

I took this picture in the Leuvenum forest in the municipality of Ermelo in the Veluwe. These honey mushrooms were at the foot of a beech tree, in fact there were more honey mushrooms against this beech tree. This mushroom species was common in places in the Leuvenum forest, it is a mushroom that does well. You can also see that moss is growing on the trunk, the beech it is on was already dead when I took this picture. The leaves you see are from other beech trees in the same forest. I used an 85mm macro lens for this photo, and I hung my camera under my tripod to get a better view.

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Welcome to my shop. My name is Gerard de Zwaan and I was born in 1983 in the Veluwe town of Harderwijk, where I still live. I started photography in 2013. My first camera was a Nikon D3200 which I still own, currently I use a Nikon D7200. Every now and then I also use 1 or 2 Nikon SB700 reportage flash units to highlight a subject. From the beginning I mainly do nature photography, it is mainly landscapes I photograph, the Veluwe woods around Harderwijk being a perfect starting point for this. Occasionally I do macro photography and sometimes I photograph wildlife. Occasionally, I also do portraits of people, which can be commissioned or free work.

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