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beautiful details
the cosmos in a fungi
reveal hidden charms
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Followers of my blog will know that I love macro photography. The process of looking closely at nature and the world around helps me to find beauty where it might be all too easy to miss in rather ordinary settings. I enjoy finding what seem like miniature landscapes when I narrow my focus on the details. Those details like in these fungi are fascinating and inspiring to me and I found them in rather ordinary setting like walking around the block or local park. Being focused on the present moment and tiny details, helps shift my mental and emotional states. And time in nature, always feeds my body and soul.
I hope you find some beautiful details and ways to feed your soul this week.
Blessings, Brad
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I agree Brad, there’s always beauty to be found in even the most ordinary things. This is beautiful.
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Thank you Miriam. I know you understand, and I also enjoy amazing places like you’ve been seeing lately! 😀
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I love that you immerse in these mini adventures of presence and perspective. Nature sure feeds my soul too and provides new ways to see life anew. I do believe that perspective changes everything.
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Agreed Tania. Thank you for the gift of your presence and friendship. 🙏
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Yes, Brad, I know your fondness of macro photography. “The cosmos in a fungi.” How wonderfully expressed.
I take photos like that on walks too. The beauty and diversity in nature is inspiring and healing.
miriam
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Clearly, you can relate Miriam. It’s a fun way to walk and explore.
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Such a beauty Brad! Thank you for sharing this…and for the reminder to find beauty in nature. Its ever present! ❤
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Agreed Zeenat. I’m glad you could share in the beauty and enjoyment. 🧡
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The first one is so pretty, like a seashell. The second one reminded me of rolling green hills. And the third made me think of a volcano. Nature has a way of repeating its patterns throughout and I always love looking for those patterns.
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Thank you Michelle. I saw similar in the first two images and love your volcano analogy!
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It’s like looking for pictures in the clouds… macros are fun in that same way. 😉
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That is another fun way to explore beauty in the moment!
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The funguis are beautiful, Brad. Such a lovely post. The beauty of nature just seems to be so wonderful and magnificent. Thanks for the awesome share.
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You’re welcome Kamal. I’m glad you can appreciate the beauty of nature too.
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Thanks Brad. Yes beauty is everywhere and in everything. 😊😊😊👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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A wonderful post, Brad. What I love most about your share is the reminder to slow down and pay attention to the details – things easily missed when we rush through life. ✨
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Thanks Michele. I’m glad you can relate and enjoy those details. 🌻
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I really like your use of “cosmos” as description, and I agree. Looking closely at natural things can show you intricate details, making the things even more beautiful. The other day, I took a photo of a butterfly on a leaf. I zoomed in on the blue spots on the butterfly’s wings. The blue spots were made of many little spots assembling. Wonderful 🙂
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Thanks Dave. It sounds like you had your own cosmic adventure with the butterfly wings! 🙂
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Beautiful, Brad. It’s been a particularly good year for fungi, it seems.
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Thanks Julie. Yes, I find them fascinating.
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Hi Brad,
I love how you find beauty in the details that most of us don’t give a second look.
Thank you for reminding me of the beauty in the details.
Blessings! ♥♥
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You’re most welcome Ana. Thanks for being open to exploring those details. 😍
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Beautiful pictures and I agree with you about exploring and observing the details – there is one incredible whole world as if that can take us in with marvelous beauty, away from the thought world of our mind.
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Thank you Pragalbha. I agree, it can be a walking meditation.
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Such a gorgeous post, Brad. Nature is a wonderful healer, and your mastery of mindfulness and celebrating nature’s tiny gems is a gift to us all. Thank you!💚
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Thank you for the kind perspective Natalie. I’m grateful to be appreciated. 😍
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Love these pics Brad! its amazing how we can find beauty in the simplest of places.
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Agreed Tammy. I’m glad you can find simple beauty.
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Again beautiful macro photography and poetry from you, Brad. Your creativity shines through both these forms of art. Love how you brought out the colour, patterns and texture in the fungi. It almost looks like a big seashell to me. ‘cosmos’ is an apt way of describing the intricacies of nature, well done. Keep finding those beautiful details around you 🙂
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Thank you for your kind words and support Mabel. I’m delighted that you enjoy my photos and musings. It looks like a seashell to me too. May we look for deeper connections.
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You are welcome, Brad. There can be different interpretations of nature, and much connections to be uncovered out there.
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Agreed.
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I believe that there is beauty all around and that all we need to do to find it is look. It’s amazing how calming it is for me when I look up and gaze at the sky, day or night. There is magic and wonder up there. Just like you found on your walk. Your photos are beautiful, and I very much love this post, Brad. 🍄
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Thank you Tanya. 🙏 I agree about needing to look, nudges are helpful too! I used to love sitting on my porch and watching clouds but I’m closed in where I live now. 💨🌥
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When I opened your site and saw the first photo, Brad, I had to smile. I love your macro photography, and I’m a fan of fungi too. It’s so beautiful and unusual, and I can sense your peace in the forest. 🙂
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I’m delighted that you enjoy my fungi fascination and macro photography Diana. Finding these little treasures are part of what keeps me sane! Into the forest to lose my mind. 🍄 🙂
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Enjoy.
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That first fungus reminds me of the wings of a moth… I also recently came across an article about how eating a couple of portions of mushrooms each week improved memory/brain function in older humans (findings from a recently completed five-year research study). Hurrah for the beauty — and sometimes the healthy deliciousness — of fungi!
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Thanks for the tip Will! I do like mushrooms but haven’t been eating them lately. I’ll have my dose of mushrooms, if I remember! 😏
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I recall the fascination with fungi in a past post, Brad. Due to the often damp weather, we have many fungi on the Island. I often take photos. You have inspired me to possibly add a post about them. You are absolutely right about the beautiful details. Gorgeous photos, Brad!
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Wonderful Erica. I look forward to seeing your post and local fungi!
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Such a wonderful poem with awesome images!
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Thank you!
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You’re welcome!
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Wow, Brad, these fungi are really amazing. A lovely poem too. Happy Saturday.
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Thanks Robbie. Enjoy your weekend.
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I love your macro shots and these are no exception! I thought the first one was some type of sedimentary rock you captured until I started reading the blog!! Beautifully done, Brad!!
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Thank you Kirt. I’m pleased with my cellphone and they’re getting better!
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Yes, yes, yes! I share your love and appreciation for details. It’s a whole new world when you look more closely at nature. Lovely photos, thank you for sharing.
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Yes Chantelle, you take appreciation to another level by studying plants, teaching, and sharing them.
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Thanks for your valuable article.
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You’re welcome.
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Thanks for your valuable article.
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Spectacular post! Fascinating how many little details a tiny, overlooked entity can hold! Brilliant! 👌
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Thank you. I’m glad you can appreciate those tiny details. I find them fascinating too!
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Awesome nature pictures! I have never seen fungi in your persepective! It is true that there is mini persepective! Thank you for sharing!
HiRO
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Thanks Hiro. I’m glad I could introduce you to fungi in a new way. Welcome.
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I could get happily lost in those beautiful details.
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Yay! I’m glad you enjoyed them JoAnna!
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I love the texture in these photos. I recently joined a slow-drawing class, kind of a meditative thing, and these would be great to use as patterns!
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Thank you and welcome Constance. Slow drawing sounds like a fun and zen.
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Beautiful.
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Thanks Jeff.
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Wonderful photos. I love the colors.
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Thank you Ali.
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awesome! and awesome!
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Thank you David.
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