Polished Porcelain

JANUARY 2, 2015

Polished Porcelain

Photograph by Agorastos Papatsanis, National Geographic Your Shot

“I am a big fan of mushrooms,” writes Your Shot member Agorastos Papatsanis. He encountered these specimens on Mount Olympus. “On one of my autumn excursions in the beech forest, I found this amazing porcelain fungus (Oudemansiella mucida). I was drawn to their cyclic hats with the radial paths of the gills, the amazing porcelain texture, and the combination of rain and sun. I used the available bright sunlight as a backlight and enhanced it with an off-camera flash to create this atmosphere.”

Papatsanis's picture recently appeared in the Your Shot assignment Macro.

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