Benjamin Simpson

Two mushrooms on the forest floor. They are set against a backdrop of green moss. The mushrooms are light brown thin stems with the umbrella cap light brown and the just visible underneath is filled with many white ribs.

No words today.

#mushroom #fungi #nature #photography #forest

Hanging in a dark forest. It looks like a large dangling earring. At the end of a drooping pine branch there are three small clumps of brown needles with rain water infused so that each clump is almost solid and glistening. Did that make sense?

Weirdly strange and beautiful random nature art. Water and pine needles hanging from a tree in the forest.

#pine #forest #water #nature #photography #naturalart

Mushrooms in a dark dank forest. There are two mushrooms dominant in the foreground and more in the background. They are growing on a fallen log. They are wrapping around the log to find the sun. Mushrooms use the sun? Right? No wait, stupid question, they must. Two gently curved stems with brown and white button tops.

No words today.

#mushroom #fungi #nature #photography #forest #peaceful

A statue in a cemetery. A gray stone statue of a woman with shoulders bare and a sleeveless dress. The dress is tied in a knot at the shoulder and hangs like a classical Greek or Roman dress. The dress is off one shoulder and hugs the chest. The woman is looking up in an expression of wistful yearning.

In the cemetery:
Modern angel?
Non-cemetery art?
Ancient Greek style grave marker?
Venus?
Thinking too much?
Thinking not enough?

#cemetery #gravestone #statue #photography

A mushroom on a forest floor. There is a piece of a fallen log in dark greens and browns. On top of this log is a white mushroom. In the traditional thin stalk with umbrella top. The ribs of the umbrella are visible because the shot is vaguely straight on/upward. It is dark and dank and peaceful and quiet, but so much life in the mushroom that only lives a few days.

Still life.
With very little still, and lots of life.

#fungi #mushroom #nature #photography #forest

In a cemetery there is a statue of probably a cherub. Childlike face with curly stone hair. The statue is gray with hints of white lichen. The lighting is dark and moody. Detail only of the face looking down.

Quietly watching over a gravestone.

#graveyard #cemetery #photography #statue #cherub #31daysofhalloween

A stream in a forest. In the foreground is a large rock covered in green moss. Next to the rock water is flowing between another rock on the other side but this rock is black and wet. There is a tiny waterfall, but the water is smoothed into artificial calm with a long exposure. Smooth and calm of a bubbling mess that is smooth and calm if you stare at it for long enough in real life.

No words today.

#river #stream #dartmoor #photography #nature #quiet

A mushroom. Close view of the underside of a mushroom. There is a white stalk and a plethora of perfect straight lines growing up from the stalk to make smooth lines. Each line is a thin strip of fungi. Half of the mushroom is in darkness.

Snails view.

#fungi #fungus #mushroom #lines #nature #photography #macro #forest

A statue. A statue in a cemetery. A view only of the face from the side. A cherub or an angel with curly stone hair. There is a dusting of brown lichen on the hair. The face is looking down somberly with closed eyes.

Softly watching over the dead.

#cemetery #statue #angel #graveyard #31daysofhalloween

In a damp dark forest. At the base of a tree. The space where tree meets roots where there are waves of trunk. There is green moss on the alive wooden waves. Sitting in the hollows between the waves is a collection of mushrooms. White stems with white caps with fading into brown tops. Calm. Peaceful.

No words today.

#fungi #mushroom #nature #photography #forest #macro

A statue in a cemetery. The statue is clean and white, maybe marble. Only the face and shoulders are in frame. Female statue with hints of being a nun. Dramatic side light with half the face in dark shadow and the lips have a subtle Mona Lisa smile.

Why that subtle grin in a cemetery?
What do you know that we don’t?

#statue #cemetery #graveyard #gothic #photography

The underside of a mushroom, or is it a fungi? Anyway it looks like the full moon, white round against black. But unlike the moon it is made up of tiny ribs. White ribs close together radiating out from the stem. Or hundreds of tiny tiny canals.

The top of the same mushroom. It is white and round against a black background. But the top is smooth with a light tinge of brown.

Top and bottom.

#fungi #mushroom #photography #nature #forest

The face of a stone angel in a cemetery. Dramatic dark lighting as the angels expression is downcast and mournful.

Part of my simply named -cemetery-angel-watching-over-the-dead-with-serious-mournful-thoughts- gothic grave series.

#cemetery #gothic #statue #angel #photography #31daysofhalloween

A mushroom from the point of view of a bug on the forest floor. Gray white stalk with a round umbrella top. There is a chunk missing from the top so the center is visible. Thin brown top with a white foam like center and hundreds a straight lines hanging down in a reddish purple colour. Amazing and weird.

So wonderfully beautiful and complex.

Why this shape?
Why brown top?
Why white center?
Why purple hanging down?

#fungi #nature #photography #mushroom #forest #forestfloor

Statue in a cemetery. The face of a woman or angel made out of stone. She is looking down in sorrow with her hand on her cheek. There is green lichen/moss on her forehead and hair. There are ivy leaves framing her face.

More from my succinctly named -handsome-stoic-stone-angels-hanging-out-in-cemeteries-watching-over-our-dead- series.

#cemetery #goth #statue #angel #gravestone #photography #31DaysOfHalloween

A mushroom on a forest floor with a brown leaf next to the mushroom. The mushroom has a small white, almost fluorescent, cap. The stem is long and white and thin and looks fragile. The brown leaf is as long as the stem.

No words today.

#fungi #mushroom #nature #photography #macro #forest

A statue in a cemetery. It is a woman or an angel. She is looking down with one hand on her chest. Side light so half of her face is in shadow. Ready for a goth album cover.

It’s October, so I can inflict you with my simply named ‘angel-and-cherub-statue-photographs-with-dramatic-lighting-because-cemeteries-are-beautiful’ series of photos.

#cemetery #statue #angel #graveyard #photography #goth

A mushroom from the point of view of a fairy standing on the forest floor. The mushroom has a white stem and a brown round cap. Could almost be a thatched cottage roof. There are fallen leaves and dirt and grass surrounding the mushroom.

…it’s that season again…

#fungi #mushroom #nature #macro #photography

Standing beside a small river in a forest. The water is flowing over and around numerous rocks and boulders. The water is smoothed by long exposure. Sunlight is slanting through the trees so there is much darkness but numerous spots of bright water and green moss and leaves.

Early morning sunlight.

#nature #photography #river #forest #longexposure

The same three photographs, they just get closer. A green leaf in a forest. There is a water droplet hanging off the leaf. There is the reflection of another leaf if you look closely or zoom in.

The same three photographs, they just get closer. A green leaf in a forest. There is a water droplet hanging off the leaf. There is the reflection of another leaf if you look closely or zoom in.

The same three photographs, they just get closer. A green leaf in a forest. There is a water droplet hanging off the leaf. There is the reflection of another leaf if you look closely or zoom in.

Reflection.

#nature #photography #reflection #forest #waterdrop #droplet

An acorn. An acorn on the tree. The acorn is smooth and green. It has a sheath holding it to the tree. The sheath is gnarled. There is black behind and a single stem holding it and two dark leaves in the background.

Future.

#acorn #seed #nature #photography #forest #macro

A seed pod. Quite large for a seed pod, golf ball sized, but more oval. It is green and just opening. The tiny crack looks like a thin mouth opening, with orange teeth. The orange teeth are the round seeds.

I wonder why Brad has a wicked grin?
(this plant’s name is Brad, by the way)
What’s he thinking in there?

#seeds #nature #photography #plant #macro

A collection of buds about to flower. There are six or so clumped together. All green wrapped around white petals. The top one is just opening. The rest are coming along but not quite there yet. If you wait a moment, I’ll be blooming something beautiful, please be patient. But actually, I’m beautiful now.

I’ll be there in a moment…

#bloomscrolling #nature #photography #macro #budding

:)
(That was for the cat, not the bank balance :) )

The nose of a cow. Just the nose. It’s pink with black dots. Wide. With white fur around. There is a wire fence. Sunny grass just visible behind. The nose looks apathetic.

Moo.

#cow #cownose #nose #nature #photography #farm

It looks like a fried brown flower. The petals curled and brown. But the center is a brown fuzzy ball. With one spider web strand going off the photo.

Fuzzy
with invisible spider.

#nature #spiderweb #photography #fuzzy

It is dark in the forest, just one branch is visible. There is some lichen on the end of the branch that looks like antlers. I think it is called Oakmoss, which is a weird name for lichen which is not moss? Anyway, it’s pretty.

The tree has antlers.

#oakmoss #lichen #nature #photography #macro #forest

Willow says zzzzzzzzzzzz. (Translated as dreaming of treats, translated as good luck.)

Climbing vine. There is one strand of a climbing vine. It normally finds something to cling to, but it is just hanging all alone against blackness. It is curled around itself like a curled hair. But thicker.

Climbing vine, reaching out, not finding.

#climbingvine #climbingplant #nature #macro

A flower. It must be a flower, but it might be a pod. Like from The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Two large red/yellow leaves. Then four small red leaves and a yellow ball/pod thing in the middle. Definetely not an alien invasion.

No words today.

#nature #bloomscrolling #macro #photography