Our thanks to Rebecca Miller for judging the 2013 WPMC Photo Contest.

Documentary

This type of image emphasizes the features needed to identify the mushroom, generally including mushrooms that are both standing and knocked over to show the gills, pores, bulb at the base of the stem, and other key features.  Images in this category must be correctly identified by Genus and species.

1st Place   Chlorophyllum rhacodes  ~ Fluff  Berger
2ed Place   Fall Pumpkin Psilocybe,    Leratiomyces squamosus ~ Dick Dougall
3rd Place   Tree Volvariella  ~  Richard Franklin

Pictorial

Images of a beautiful fungus in nature.  None are knocked down to show the underside, and they are identified at least to Genus (such as Amanita) but the species is also given if known.

1st Place   Jack O’Lanterns and Flowers   ~ Dick Dougall
2ed Place   Laccaria amethystina   ~ Cecily Franklin
3rd Place   Morchella esculentoides(?)  ~ Richard Jacob

Judge’s Option

All mushroom photo entries that do not fit into the documentary or pictorial categories belong here. This includes things such as mushroom events, humorous pictures, or pictures of a mushroom dinner or food. Images in this category must be titled but Genus or species need not be given unless desired by the contestant.

1st Place   Earth Star  ~ George Banyas
2ed Place   Tricholoma sulphureum   ~  Martha Wasik
3rd Place   Ryan Tomazin

Serendipity

And for this year we have a special category serendipity

1st Place  Bolete in a beer bottle ~Barb DeRiso found the bottle and  Dick Dougall took the photo, on a club walk in north Park
2ed Place  Morchella esculenta with Toad  ~ John Kirk
3rd Place  Grandpa and Maria  ~ Caroline Miller – What Mushroom Club is all about!

 

Pictorial 1st Place Jack O’Lanterns and Flowers ~ Dick Dougall
Pictorial 2nd Place Laccaria amethystina ~ Cecily Franklin
Pictorial 3rd Place Morchella esculentoides(?) ~ Richard Jacob
Documentary 1st Place Chlorophyllum rhacodes ~ Fluff Berger
Documentary 2nd Place Fall Pumpkin Psilocybe, Leratiomyces squamosus ~ Dick Dougall
Documentary 3rd Place Tree Volvariella ~ Richard Franklin
Judge’s Option 1st Place Earth Star ~ George Banyas
Judge’s Option 2nd Place Tricholoma sulphureum ~ Martha Wasik
Judge’s Option 3rd Place Ryan Tomazin
Serendipity 1st Place Bolete in a beer bottle ~ Barb DeRiso found the bottle and Dick Dougall took the photo, on a club walk in north Park
Serendipity 2nd Place Morchella esculenta with Toad ~ John Kirk
Serendipity 3rd Place Grandpa and Maria ~ Caroline Miller What Mushroom Club is all about

More entries to the photo contest are shown here

Sheepshead/hen of the woods – Grifola frondosa
Trimenes Versicolor -eugkad
Trametes versicolor, Cecily Franklin
Ryan Tomazin – Fuligo septica slime mold
Ryan Tomazin – Ganoderma Tsugae
Ryan Tomazin- chocolate tube slime mold Stemonitis sp.
Ryan Tomazin Sheepshead/hen of the woods – Grifola frondosa
Marasmiellus candidus
Physarum polycephalum John Kirk
Mushrooms under glass – Jim Wasik
Mushrooms in glass – Jim Wasik
Morchella esculenta John Kirk
Wasp nest / Metatrichia vesparium slime mold Richard Jacob
Laccaria ochropurpurea,ocumentar James and Judy Adams
Laccaria ochropurpurea,Fluff Berger
Justin Giel Pholiota limonella(?)
Justin Giel
Justin Giel – crown tipped coral Artomyces pyxidatus
Justin Giel
Georgette Fogg Sheepshead/hen of the woods – Grifola frondosa
George Banyas
George Banyas
Ganoderma Tsugae John Kirk
Pseudoarmillariella ectypoides. Audubon Guide calls this Clitocybe ectypoides or Wood Clitocybe. Dick Dougall
Cyathus striatus Martha Wasik
Cyathus striatus Martha Wasik
Cortinarius armillatus Fluff Berger
Chanterelle Garden, Cantharellus cibarius. Cecily Franklin
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa –Richard.Jacob
Boletus frostii Cecily Franklin
Auricularia auricula John Kirk
Amanita flavoconia in the egg or button stage. Judges option James and Judy Adams
Amanita amerirubescens -Fluff Berger
Al and Bea Garmer
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