Wednesday 30 June 2010

Link of the week- the beauty of fungi...

...may sound like a contradiction in terms, but as these stunning photographs show, just because an organism lives on the forest floor, is almost entirely composed of tiny white tubes and feeds on rotting organic material, doesn't mean it can't be beautiful...

The first link is to a picture called “Decomposition on the forest floor” by James Milligan -
http://www.naturescapes.net/portfolios/displayimage.php?pos=-2445

The second link leads to “Fungal Abstract” by Craig Lipski-
http://www.naturescapes.net/portfolios/displayimage.php?pos=-4801

Today's third link - “Mushroom” by Ken Kovak - demonstrates the slow power of fungi - as we see a group of tree fungi slowly prizing the bark off a tree-
http://www.naturescapes.net/portfolios/displayimage.php?pos=-19696

Today's final link is a slightly more off-the-wall ("less on-the-wall"?) kind of "fungal art" for want of a better word- one of a number of similar pieces by Bristol-based artist ElinTM
http://elintm.blogspot.com/2010/04/pincushions.html

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