Ramaria Stricta

 A big part of mushroom photography for me is the diversity of colors and textures as well as the composition and creation of visual interest. If the photograph invokes a smell of moist forest floor, even better. In these images you can see the green leaves of alpine strawberries, the fallen leaves of beech and oak trees, as well as some fern and moss. These photographs were taken in a forest in Germany in a predominantly beech deciduous forest after a rainy afternoon. The lighting is dim but I was able to grab the photo just about with tolerable grain. The mushroom here was identified via the integrated smartphone functionality for identifying plants and it came up as Ramaria Stricta, the strict-branch coral. Follow this link for additional information on this cosmopolitan mushroom.