A Turning Point

This mushroom photograph represents a turning point for me.  My approach to photographing nature has been that I do not remove the entity from its domain.  I do not capture insects, birds (I think that may be illegal), or animals.  I have sometimes removed a plant or more likely an bloom or stem but usually not.  I have put the pressure on myself to photograph it adequately for ID.

I thought that if I knew enough I could photograph it adequately for ID.

I thought that my photography and nature life knowledge would progress evenly.  

I have come to a point that I realized I can't follow my established protocol with some things especially mushrooms.  I don't know what species this image represents.  I have been told by an authority whom I respect that it is probably not what I thought it was.  I have trusted his knowledge to the point of eating unknown mushrooms, to me, and I survived.  That is the basis of my trust.

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