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Believe it or not, I had the foresight to actually take a picture of myself taking that picture. Nobody else has seen it, but it's a shot of my camera, resting on a black sock, which is sitting on a blue coffee can, in the middle of the darkest woods in the world. I could show you, if you like.

I've tried keeping the fungus alive indoors. If you find a patch, you can bring it home and build a sort of terrarium-like enclosure. Fill it with water, set the log on a rock, and spray it with a spray bottle every once in a while. Otherwise it dries out.

Trouble is, without humidity control indoors, it dries out so fast that you can't reliably take a four-minute exposure of it. It's already desiccated and moved by then, and shows up as a blur.

So what works best (I've found) is working with Panellus stipticus in its natural environment: Outdoors! I spent three full nights in the woods before I got the shot. It wasn't a particularly bright lens (f/2.8), so the exposures were all eight+ minutes long. Add a black frame, and that's 16 minutes. So you stay out all night, and you might get 30 pictures, 20 of which are out of focus or just bad.

The simple truth is, I got that picture to impress a girl. I really liked her. It was worth it. If you care deeply enough, find a patch, and do it. And don't forget bug spray.

Regards-- Ylem (talk)