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Safe from the Scary 'Shroom by Karen Davis

February 2025 - Safe from the Scary 'Shroom

About the Image(s)

Alternate Title: Saved from the Scary 'Shroom
Camera: Google Pixel 7 Pro (Yep - my cell phone camera!)
ISO- 350
1/75 sec at f/1.9
Date Taken: 8/9/2024

This shot was taken on a recent camping trip to Little Beaver State Park in Wild, Wonderful West Virginia. As Maggie (my BerneDoodle) and I explored the woods around our campsite, I was amazed at the number of mushrooms I saw. There had been some recent rains, so growing conditions
must have been perfect in the damp leaves. This particular threesome sparked my imagination, and I started to weave a story of the larger/older mushroom protecting the child from the scary stranger in the distance. It took several shots to get the angle right. Then a bit of tweaking in Lightroom to up the Clarity, remove a couple of green leaves that were distracting, and add a darker vignette to contribute a
bit of menace to the scene.

I'm hoping to enter this into a local competition with the theme "My Point of View". What do you think?

Thanks for your feedback!


 

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