Grainy

In October 1986, I borrowed a Nikon F2 and its macro (55mm) lens and

spent a few hours on my belly, trying to get pictures of mushrooms.

For the most part I wasn't successful. I shot two rolls. The first

roll was 100-speed Kodak film and all the pictures suffer from poor

focus and bad camera shake. Then I switched to a roll of Fuji 1600

film and -- at the time -- I still didn't like what I got from that:

grain so large that most detail was smeared or clumped. This is a

good example, though it is the example I now like best, thirty-one

years later, having just scanned them all.



The yellow mushrooms are chanterelles (which I probably picked after

photographing them). I am not sure of the one in the left background