Photowalk: Coyote Ridge
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Located 15 minutes south of Fort Collins, Coyote Ridge is a natural area consisting if a couple hundred acres of prairie. A trail runs from the road up across several ridges. Today, I walked to the base of the second ridge before coming back. I’ll make the full hike to the end some time in the future.
The weather today was overcast and gloomy, so my camera was straining with the available light. Still, I took a few nice photos. Here’s the walk from start to finish, with narration and seventeen photos:
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Daily Photo: Stacked mushrooms
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It’s a return of the old favorite! Mycoids! I’m thinking about giving this one the old fashioned Roundbottom treatment. Sneak some eyeballs in there in the folds, maybe. Give it some stalked eyeballs and a mouth and make it some kind of mimic. Lots of possibilities. I really do have a slightly unhealthy fascination with turning mushrooms into creepy “other” things. When you think about it, with them being neither animal nor plant, but something in between, they’re already somewhat creepy. This is the first macro shot I’ve really posted that I didn’t take with my 35mm macro lens, but instead was taken with the macro mode on the 70-300mm lens. I’m pretty pleased with it’s quality, but I think I’m going to need to get a really small tripod for the insect work.
