Welcome!  To share in my mania over wild mushrooms, this gallery contains some of my nicer mushroom photographs. I got started in mushroom photography sort of by accident. I had just bought a new SLR camera and thought I would shoot wildflowers, but on a particularly windy day, I looked around for some static subjects and discovered the wonderful world of mushrooms....

You can tour the gallery using thumbnails, arranged either in a list of common names, or in image maps. Thumbnails link to full screen images, all of which are easy on bandwidth (from 14 to 38 kb per image).

I was able to identify nearly all of the fungi to the best of my knowledge (with some expert help from my local mycological society), but those I was unsure of I left under a genus name. If you think you recognize an un-labelled or mis-labelled mushroom, please let me know.

Whether you're a mushroom enthusiast or just curious about them, I hope you enjoy these pictures!

All images in this website are copyrighted by the photographer, Eileen K. Seto.
You may use them for non-commercial purposes if you credit the photographer
and let me know.
Commercial inquiries are welcome (high resolution images are available); contact me by e-mail.

There are 56 different mushroom species pictured in the 62 images of this collection.

Enter into Mushroom Mania...

Common Name List
Mania Map #1
Mania Map #2
Mania Map #3

The photos were taken with a Canon EOS Rebel XS, mostly all with a Canon Zoom Lens EF (35-80 mm). I used ISO 100 colour print film (mostly Kodak Gold or AGFA), a Logitech PageScan Color scanner to digitize the prints, and Adobe Photoshop to work with the images.
My main resource for all things mycological was David Arora's fantastic Mushrooms Demystified (2nd Ed.), truly the mushroom bible of the Pacific Northwest.

Feedback on the site or discussion of mushroom photography techniques are always welcome. I've enjoyed receiving your e-mails over the years; indeed that is what has encouraged me to keep this site running since 1996.

Send me an e-mail!

Test your basic mushroom identification skills by
playing the Mushroom Mania Game!
(You will need to have Flash Player 5 or higher.)

Spore Prints

The pattern you see on the background of this webpage was made from taking spore prints of various mushrooms. To make your own spore prints:
  1. Cut the caps off of freshly matured specimens;
  2. Place the caps gills down on a white sheet of clean paper and cover with a bowl;
  3. Leave them for several hours or overnight at room temperature;
  4. Remove the caps and see what you got!

Spore prints are an excellent way of helping to identify your mysterious mushroom finds. The colour of the prints is almost always referred to in guidebooks.
Taxonomy of mushrooms is largely based on microscopic examination of the spore size and shape, as well as colour.

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all photographic images in this website © Eileen K. Seto

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