Another poll from a couple shots taken at Cuyahoga Valley National Park. This one was taking on the Ledges Trail - Anya spotted this lone mushroom nestled among the roots of a large tree. I quickly picked my angle and took a first shot, then decided that I wanted to clean up some of the leaf litter to try and declutter the shot. Finally, back home when processing the photos, I decided to declutter further by processing the photo to black & white. Mouseover the thumbnails for the larger view, then pick your favorite below.

Original	Decluttered	Black & White

Technical Data: Canon EOS 7D, Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM at 55mm, 2.5 sec at f/22. ISO 100. RAW processing in Adobe Camera Raw, B&W processing in Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Nik Silver Efex Pro.

- Bill

As promised, here's the mushroom assortment. No clue if any of these are edible or toxic but they certainly look interesting.

Thanks for stopping by.

- Bill