The challenge this week at
DPS was to photograph food at the dinner table. I was thinking of this as I chopped veggies for my supper, (which turned out delicious, but not photogenic) when I found that one of my tomatoes had sprouted a fungus. So I ate the supper, and photographed the tomato.
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| Transparent stalks, with round fruiting bodies (sporangia) at the top. |
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| New sporangia are transparent, becoming dark grey as they ripen. |
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| Zooming in |
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| "Young" threads, with tiny growing sporangia |
And then the tomato, mould and all, went into the compost bin. Nothing goes to waste around here.
Hmmmmmm ..... not the most appetizing! ... but enlightening. I just photographed little black balls on tiny stalks on a soggy oak leaf. Now I know I photographed a mold.
ReplyDeletewhen I saw your picture before reading your post, I thought the tomato was some sea creature. The colors and texture are really quite beautiful. I will have to look more closely at my aging produce.
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