Steve Young Photography

Steve Young Photography Commercial and fine art photography - My commercial photography is quite a mix from studio work through to location photography of all types

Creative Photography, Fine Art Photography
I guess this is more about trying to satisfy a creative drive, I'm continuously capturing images for personal photographic projects. Some of these make the final cut and are presented in the fine art photography gallery pages on the website. Whilst some are derived from studio photography, moreso these days I'm capturing images of landscapes, seascape an

d what I term as wavescapes. All gallery images can be purchased as prints or canvasses and details are in the Fine Art and Gift Ideas pages.

QUICK TRIP up to the Bruxner Rainforest after some much needed rain. It's looking lush but Myxos still scarce to find. I...
06/01/2026

QUICK TRIP up to the Bruxner Rainforest after some much needed rain. It's looking lush but Myxos still scarce to find. In 30 minutes it was only two species found. The first a recent but aging Physarum viride and this one. Stemonitis or Steminotopsis? These two fruits are 4.5-5mm tall sparsely spread. No micros done just some fun with my studio gear. I'm leaning towards Steminotopsis typhina maybe??? Any thoughts guys?

24/04/2025

SO HERE IN AUSTRALIA, here's your typical Sand Goanna starting to eat a kangaroo leg. To be fair it was probably a small kangaroo. Ps... sound down..unless you like Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon😊

EVENING COLOUR THROWS - as the moon rises in Eromanga tonight. A delightful backdrop of after-sunset hues on the Eastern...
13/04/2025

EVENING COLOUR THROWS - as the moon rises in Eromanga tonight.
A delightful backdrop of after-sunset hues on the Eastern horizon, with a full moon making its presence felt.
But way more important is the swathe of green on an otherwise red-brown land. Flood water from here now gone, and the herbage starts its rise..

FUNGI FLOWERS? These tiny fungi (1mm diameter) popped up in an indoor plant pot last week. I've been watching a mycelliu...
05/04/2025

FUNGI FLOWERS?
These tiny fungi (1mm diameter) popped up in an indoor plant pot last week.
I've been watching a mycellium-like growth over the last couple of months and I noticed the development of what looked like 'eggs' similar to those in the Phallus list of species.
Two fruiting bodies emerged and as I was doing a lengthy focus stack each in turn 'popped' outwardly like a balloon.
Needless to say it ruined the focus stack, but I salvaged enough to show the process.
Here is the progression of the two fruits aver maybe 10 minutes.
I've also arrowed another emerging bulb/egg to the right hand side.
I have no idea what these are and again would be very grateful of any advice about their identity please..

MY SECOND ONLY ENCOUNTER with Hemitrichia serpula. Such a healthy specimen and I have two small samples for posterity. F...
27/03/2025

MY SECOND ONLY ENCOUNTER with Hemitrichia serpula. Such a healthy specimen and I have two small samples for posterity. For my close up image I chose this very small section that has the plasmodiocarp climbing over an uneven surface so it is not like the usually flat spread.
More importantly I love seeing the plasmodium remnants still visible at the terminations of the fruit.
Even though this is an emerging fruit not fully mature, already the characteristic yellow stripe has appeared that will split open to reveal the plentiful capilitium and spore mass within.
LG...Life's Good!

WELL THIS ONE TAKES THE CAKE! Or more correctly takes the paper towel! This was grown from substrate in arid Australia a...
12/03/2025

WELL THIS ONE TAKES THE CAKE! Or more correctly takes the paper towel! This was grown from substrate in arid Australia and very quickly became an extremely hungry opaque cream plasmodium that literally consumed about 20% of the paper towel lining its growing chamber.
I am nowhere near identifying it but suspect it may be part of either Diderma or Didymium families.. 🤔
🙏I'll be very grateful of any ideas please.🙏

I'll describe it as best I can:
PLASMODIUM: Cream, opaque, very active, fast growing, extremely voracious feeder.
SPORANGIA: Plasmodiocarps sessile, white to slightly cream, 0.5-1.5mm in length, mostly without crystalline calcium, but a few fruits had semi-transparent yellow crystals. Most fruits seemed not to reach maturity and subsided.
HYPOTHALUS: Inconspicuous
PERIDIUM: Single layer thick, almost 'cheesey' in some fruits to more rigid in others. (Maybe moist to drier?)
COLUMELLA: More like a dark brown/orange mound across the inner base.
CAPILLITIUM: Hard to find but small clear threads off the inner peridium. Not forming a network.
SPORES: When present in fruits nearer maturity, a midtone ochre colour, clear in transmitted light. variable in size from 12-19ums diameter, warted.
FOOTNOTE... I was completely surprised by literally how much paper towel was consumed by this guy, and cannot help but think how such a belly full may have altered its ability to be identified. 😲🤔
As I mentioned I will be very grateful of some help here please...

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