Getting Low: A Different View Makes for Great Pics

We had an awful lot of rain over the weekend and through Monday. Okay, okay...before you scratch your head I know this is a photography blog, so give me a little leeway here.

After a good soaking you may notice different varieties of fungus popping up in your yard. I always take it as a good sign that the soil is nice and wet, hmmmm...now this is starting to sound like a gardening blog.

Anyway, one of the keys to good photography is getting close to your subject, in this case the shrooms, and getting a unique angle. I literally had to lay on the ground to shoot this picture but I think it was worth a little dirt on my jeans. It's fascinating that mushrooms have so many layers winding around their bodies and it's something you wouldn't necessarily notice just walking by and gazing down from our human vantage point.

So the next time you want a shot nobody else has, just get down and look up.

Till next time.....