{"id":9497,"date":"2019-03-15T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T02:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=9497"},"modified":"2019-03-15T12:06:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T02:06:49","slug":"surprise-giant-bioluminescent-ghost-mushrooms-light-up-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=9497","title":{"rendered":"Surprise giant bioluminescent ghost mushrooms light up the night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Whilst camping a couple of weeks ago in Victoria’s remote wilderness, there finally was a little rain after some weeks of dry, warm weather, and I awoke from my tent to find myself in the midst of glowing lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought these may have been glow worms with my bleary eyes but in the morning I investigated and discovered that ghost mushrooms (
Omphalotus Nidiformis<\/em><\/strong> ) had grown following the rains the previous day to over 30cm in diameter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was at least 30cm across!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That night I decided to get my tripod out and used my Olympus OM-D E-M1II with Olympus 12-40mm f\/2.8 lens with noise filter = LOW, long exposure NR on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the mushrooms at night, 19mm, f\/2.8, ISO 800, 60secs, sunny day white balance. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


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Closer view of a mushroom, 40mm, f\/4, ISO 1600, 60secs, sunny day white balance. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


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Another one, this time 32mm, f\/4, ISO 400, 240secs, sunny day white balance using Live Time mode.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I have <\/strong>previously posted a blog on ghost mushrooms from western Victoria using an Olympus 25mm f\/1.2 lens and an Olympus fisheye lens here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong>
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Whilst camping a couple of weeks ago in Victoria’s remote wilderness, there finally was a little rain after some weeks of dry, warm weather, and I awoke from my tent to find myself in the midst of glowing lights. I thought these may have been glow worms with my bleary eyes but in the morning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[505,593,14],"class_list":["post-9497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-camping","tag-ghost-mushrooms","tag-olympus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t