José Torres

Strange forms of life...

Monday, 9. February 2009, 18:33:14

My forest still very green and it's a perfect time to try some macros photos of so nice forms of life.

Blooming moss

Take a look there are more to see...

There are approximately 12,000 species of moss.

They like to live here in the cork trees.

Some kind of mushurroms... Browns

Orange mushurroms...

Pink mushurroms...

Fungus is a strange branch of life. When I think of fungus, it brings to my mind alien worlds and bizarre life forms.

This is the kind of wild life in the forest.

Opera friends join a Coke...Wildflowers arrive...

Comments

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MrLeffe # 9. February 2009, 18:42

A very nice and beautiful post. About exiting life that we dont think of
that often. The first picture with moss in bloom is something special, all photoes are beautiful

cakkleberrylane # 9. February 2009, 19:00

Beautiful shots Ze! I love the blooming moss!

PainterWoman # 9. February 2009, 19:28

I love the mushrooms, especially that pinkish one!

Dacotah # 9. February 2009, 19:57

annoushkiss # 9. February 2009, 20:15

That's a very good post, Ze

And the moss in bloom is super

ricewood # 9. February 2009, 22:17

Love the blooming mosss

Stardancer # 9. February 2009, 23:53

When I was a child, I would go into the forest behind our house and lie in the moss and dream of...well, things.

Nice post, Ze.

zetorres # 10. February 2009, 00:20

Leffe, Indeed usualy we step that wild life!

But it's nice time spending in the forest finding for strange forms of live!

zetorres # 10. February 2009, 00:23

Lois, I have found here in Opera so many things to photograph...It's a nice place to learn!

zetorres # 10. February 2009, 00:24

Pamela, he is so cute,

I alsoi like the orange tinny mushurrom family!

zetorres # 10. February 2009, 00:28

Carol, so sory so Daisies in the forest...but I have that one for you

zetorres # 10. February 2009, 00:29

Ann, thanks for your visit! You have lots of snow, I have lots of green...

Do you want to change???

zetorres # 10. February 2009, 00:31

Alan, welcome to the group!

zetorres # 10. February 2009, 00:33

Star, did you have Eucaliptus behind uour house???

It's the aroma now in the forest, Eucaliptus seeds are faling now...

Stardancer # 10. February 2009, 00:48

I don't think we did, Ze. I was so young, I wouldn't have known, though. I do remember the smell of "green"--pine, moss, grass, leaves. I sometimes just go and sit on the riverbank to remember those smells.

zetorres # 10. February 2009, 00:58

Yes, it's something realy great! Some times we found in your mind so old smells that we don't fell a long time...

Shaunak # 10. February 2009, 02:30

What a lovely sight!!

The orange mushrooms look positively fiery!

Dacotah # 10. February 2009, 05:53

Awww, Zé, no need to be sorry.
I love that one too.

annoushkiss # 10. February 2009, 06:53

Oh yeah, sometimes I want to change much

But we should love things around us, because they are our life

norfrid # 10. February 2009, 09:48

Nice! I also enjoy beeing in the forest and take a closer look at all those small things. But I wonder when I will be able to do that this year as there is a thick layer of snow everywhere right now, and freezing cold.

zetorres # 10. February 2009, 10:48

Shauna kthanks

that was my first thought when I saw them!

zetorres # 10. February 2009, 10:53

Carol, nice you like them too, they are what we have the most here now!

The fiels are green and yellow for everywhere!

zetorres # 10. February 2009, 10:58

Yes Ann, you are right again!

Isn't nice our planet its so different in all the countries?

zetorres # 10. February 2009, 11:09

Norfrid, I believe you right now have a fantastic view from the forest with so many snow! Some that wild life soon will trough by the snow. And it's fantastic scene!

Dacotah # 10. February 2009, 11:24

Pretty green and yellow fields.

zetorres # 10. February 2009, 11:26

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BabyJay99 # 10. February 2009, 17:13

Love the mushrooms.

is it edible?

(now am longing for mushroom soup

BabyJay99 # 10. February 2009, 17:16

Zé.. how did you know that the orange mushroom is a 'he'

zetorres # 10. February 2009, 17:37

Lea, becareful with pick mushroom not all are eatable...

There are two He's and one she orange mushrooms!

It's a mushroom family...

One dad on mom and one kid

BabyJay99 # 10. February 2009, 18:31

Gonna sleep now its 2am here. Goodnight Zé and all

Words # 11. February 2009, 00:10

What great variety, and nice to see them on a cork tree. I saw a programme on TV recently about how important cork is to the ecology of Portugal (they also showed the Iberian lynx, which was stunning). I now try to remember to buy wine with a proper cork.

Dacotah # 11. February 2009, 03:41

zetorres # 11. February 2009, 10:18

Lea!

zetorres # 11. February 2009, 10:31

Thanks Words!

Yes indeed our cork it's very important for our ecology and economy! NASA bought our cork to put in spaceships!

I hope you will like our wine try Alentejo

like Borga, Piriquita, Esporão...

About Iberian Lynx, it's realy a beautiful animal.

Isn't?

MrLeffe # 11. February 2009, 16:48

This is a realy beautiful cat.

zetorres # 11. February 2009, 17:42

Yes, we still have some living wild!!

Thanks

and 300 wolfs

rfhurley # 11. February 2009, 19:16

Zé

Do you have any suggestions as to how to shoot macros (or "virtual" ones) without a macro lens?

SittingFox # 11. February 2009, 19:23

I love those lynx. I wish I could see one in the wild...

Great post Ze! It's nice to remember how much "small" life is in the world

MrLeffe # 11. February 2009, 20:47

Yes do have lynx here but they are few and very shy of humans. sometimes we can see the pawprints but not often. I have never seen one in the wild,

Flying Red Fox Blog # 11. February 2009, 21:00

Thats really stunning. I do wonder what kinds i could have found on the rainforest floor back in Thailand if i looked a bit closer. Fascinating stuff.