a surprise garden find

While tidying and weeding some pots in the garden last week, we chanced upon this small cluster of mushrooms growing in one of them.  And it's just as well we did with Douglas currently testing everything by eating it, as they are milky conecaps - potentially very toxic.

Poisonous or hallucinogenic or not, they make for a nice image I think.  Maybe more autumnal than summer, but then here in Wales it's sometimes hard to tell the difference!

Fujifilm X-H2, TTArtisans 100mm f2.8 2x macro lens
1/100th of a second at f5.6, ISO 125
handheld
8-image focus bracket stacked in Helicon Focus

And then, just like buses, along comes this one which I believe is of the "magic" variety!

same camera, lens and settings as above