Walking the Polblue track in the Barrington Tops on a clear summer's day we smelt something truly awful - the source was this fabulous stinkhorn fungi 'clathrus archeri'. Getting closer to take a photo intensified the foetid smell, but photographers are well known for taking on a challenge - holding my breath for the time it took to grab this image ;). Be happy that your computer has no 'smellavision'.
Honestly, that looks like something one might find on the set of Star Trek. I admire you fortitude!
ReplyDeleteOh my word. That looks as stinky as it likely smelled. Great photo, and pat yourself on the back for being willing to tackle the shot.
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IT'S ALLLIIIVVVEEEE! :) lol Loving what you have to go through to get the theme filled (but I have to admit, as bad as you say it smells, it sure is photogenic)!
ReplyDeleteLooks truly alien. Well done for braving the smell.
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I admire your determination to get the photo . . . no matter how smelly it may be.
ReplyDeleteLove the up close look at this fungi.
It is effective - I mean - It attracted you, I may have fled the stench LOL
ReplyDeleteHmmmm - yes, it uses the 'dead meat' smell to attract flies, which then spread the spores - I didn't get quite that close ... but it was attractive in a sort of disgusting way
DeleteOoohhh looks like something out of Alien...great colours
ReplyDeleteEven in smelly things there is a beauty. Well done
ReplyDeleteYou are my new hero! That looks very creepy...lol...
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