Mini-fungi, home

I've always been attracted to very small scenes, and while I've certainly wanted to own those gargantuan telephoto lenses and spotting scopes that bird photographers use—to the envy of the rest of us—I'm really more drawn to the micro world and the equipment that brings it within view. (And those lenses, along with microscope attachments to image even smaller landscapes, are not, happily enough, all that expensive—only a mere low-four figures rather than five.) All that said, unless I give up the natural history volunteer circuit for back-to-full-time executive work, I'm going to have to make do with the equipment, some of it close to half-a-century old, I have in the toolbox. But with it, I can do reasonably well. All I have to do is keep my eyes open and look closely at the natural world. This shot of tiny mushrooms, each strangely colored cap smaller than an infant's little fingernail, is the result. Now, if only I had the proper fungus identification tools and skills.