Wild mushrooms

Small, unassuming

Never to gain much stature

Nestled with giants

We found these little guys in Humboldt County, California while we were visiting the redwoods. The minuscule and the majestic in a symbiotic relationship. I cropped the original photo to focus more on the mushrooms. I lowered the highlights and increased the shadows. I used a radial filter to decrease the exposure around the mushrooms. I also decreased the noise just a little. Here’s the original:

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