Turkey Tail Fungus

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Pictures of turkey tail fungus taken in my backyard in Puget Sound during the last week. The fungus (or mushroom), Trametes versicolor(?), is on dead logs or stumps of Douglas firs or hemlocks in the dark parts of my yard (i.e., most of it), which is quite wet during the Pacific Northwest rainy season that started again a couple of weeks ago and will go on until July 4. The turkey tail fungus doesn’t have a stalk, is multicolored, and has small hairs on the upper part so it feels like felt, and has pores on the bottom of the cup.

All of the following images were taken with a D850. The first is a focus stack of a 3.3” specimen. Micro-Nikkor 105 mm f/2.8 G, focus-shift shooting. Eighteen shots at 1/20 sec, f/11, ISO 160, lit by a 9x14-inch LED light panel, stacked in PS, sharpened a bit with Topaz DeNoise AI.
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A few inches away from that one was Old Fungus Face (single shot at 1/30, f/16, ISO 200)
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Here’s the underside of another specimen, showing the pores. This was a stack in PS of 10 hand-held exposures taken in open shade with a Micro-Nikkor 55 mm f/2.8 AIS lens at 1/160 sec, f/5.6, ISO 280, and yes, it's a manual focus lens. This photo also gave me the opportunity to try the Image>Analysis features in PS to show the approximate scale of the fungus (the ruler was cropped out of the picture).
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Finally, to show the pore detail, I used a Nikon PB-6 bellows with a 50 mm f/2.8 Schneider Componon-S enlarging lens at about 1.7x to shoot the inset area in the above image. The lighting was by a 7x9 inch light panel (1/25 sec, f/11, ISO 220). Live view with focus peaking really helps when shooting with a bellows or extension tubes. This shot happened to catch a critter (about 1.5 mm long) that’s probably responsible for the burrows and holes that extend through the fungus cap. Topaz Sharpen AI was used to bring up the details of the critter and the pores.
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GlenW said:
Pictures of turkey tail fungus taken in my backyard in Puget Sound during the last week. The fungus (or mushroom), Trametes versicolor(?), is on dead logs or stumps of Douglas firs or hemlocks in the dark parts of my yard (i.e., most of it), which is quite wet during the Pacific Northwest rainy season that started again a couple of weeks ago and will go on until July 4. The turkey tail fungus doesn’t have a stalk, is multicolored, and has small hairs on the upper part so it feels like felt, and has pores on the bottom of the cup.

All of the following images were taken with a D850. The first is a focus stack of a 3.3” specimen. Micro-Nikkor 105 mm f/2.8 G, focus-shift shooting. Eighteen shots at 1/20 sec, f/11, ISO 160, lit by a 9x14-inch LED light panel, stacked in PS, sharpened a bit with Topaz DeNoise AI.
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A few inches away from that one was Old Fungus Face (single shot at 1/30, f/16, ISO 200)
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Here’s the underside of another specimen, showing the pores. This was a stack in PS of 10 hand-held exposures taken in open shade with a Micro-Nikkor 55 mm f/2.8 AIS lens at 1/160 sec, f/5.6, ISO 280, and yes, it's a manual focus lens. This photo also gave me the opportunity to try the Image>Analysis features in PS to show the approximate scale of the fungus (the ruler was cropped out of the picture).
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Finally, to show the pore detail, I used a Nikon PB-6 bellows with a 50 mm f/2.8 Schneider Componon-S enlarging lens at about 1.7x to shoot the inset area in the above image. The lighting was by a 7x9 inch light panel (1/25 sec, f/11, ISO 220). Live view with focus peaking really helps when shooting with a bellows or extension tubes. This shot happened to catch a critter (about 1.5 mm long) that’s probably responsible for the burrows and holes that extend through the fungus cap. Topaz Sharpen AI was used to bring up the details of the critter and the pores.
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Great series Glen. Love the detail as well as the photography lesson. Well done👍👍👍
 
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Bluetail,
Thanks for the comment. There are lots of these growing in my yard but I doubt there will be a tea-making experiment. BTW, if anyone wants instructions on adding a scale bar in PS, feel free to PM me.
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Thanks for posting these images. We also have these growing on dead stumps in our yard (also in Puget Sound) and I did not know what type of fungus they were. Also, I have been mulling how to best photograph them and you have given me some good ideas. They are quite beautiful before they start to get dirty or stained.

--Ken
 
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Woody--thanks for the compliment and the ID on the springtail. I haven't shot them in the past. Nice photos of frost on your blog, too.
Ken--Hope you're successful wth the fungus photos. I looked at this fungus group today and they seem quite happy with all the rain we've had so far this water year. They looked pretty bad in August.
Glen
 
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