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Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/200 sec, f/2.5, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
What am I?
I was thinking to use this as one of my “What am I?” quizzes

Picking up from where “Tag Along With Me on a Photo Shoot at Kyoto’s Gioji Temple” left off, after the initial moss shots, I turned to the thatched roof of a small gate.

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/320 sec, f/1.4, ISO 2200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Small Gate

The first photo is looking up the slant to the reeds making the top layer of the roof.

Here's looking at the evenly-sliced bottom face, which perhaps would be considered the eaves if there were walls...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/100 sec, f/1.4, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Protected Underbelly of the Roof

Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Roof

Nearby a set of ferns seems to be springing from the base of a tree and have a real “presence” (I'm not sure what that even means for a plant), but whatever “it” these ferns had was lost in the photo, but FWIW, here it is:

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/320 sec, f/1.4, ISO 1800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Ferns and Moss

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Olympus E-P2 + Leica DG Summilux 25/F1.4 at an effective 50mm — ¹/50 sec, f/2, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Me Taking “Ferns and Moss”
photo by Nicolas Joannin

Nicolas then found some mushrooms the size of the head of a pin...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/320 sec, f/1.4, ISO 4000 — map & image data — nearby photos
The Mushrooms are There
the little white dots next to the moss

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/320 sec, f/1.4, ISO 2800 — map & image data — nearby photos
Better View
Voigtländer 125mm mounted on his Olympus E-P2

The white dots in the lower left are the mushrooms in question. He's using my Voigtländer 125mm with an adapter on his Olympus E-P2. Here's one of the shots he got:

Olympus E-P2 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/30 sec, ISO 400 — image data
photo by Nicolas Joannin

I like the pictures of Nicolas wielding the big lens to shoot the little mushrooms, so a few more of that...

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/320 sec, f/1.4, ISO 2800 — map & image data — nearby photos

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/320 sec, f/1.4, ISO 3600 — map & image data — nearby photos

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — ¹/60 sec, f/4.5, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos

Olympus E-P2 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — ¹/30 sec, ISO 400 — image data
photo by Nicolas Joannin

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