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This is the sort of picture I've wanted to take for years. I couldn't have found a more heartwarming autumnal woodland scene if I'd tried. It reminds me of an illustration in a book about wild mushrooms. The Fly Agaric is common in Sussex, but not on the South Downs, because it only grows in acidic soils. I took this on the High Weald, not far from the Kent border. Fungi have a symbiotic relationship with trees; in return for taking sugars from tree roots, fungi provide trees with minerals. What we see above ground is a mechanism for distributing spores. Most of the organism is underground.

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Make:	Canon
Model:	Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III
Exposure:	15
Aperture:	f/16.0
ISO Speed:	100
Focal Length:	85 mm