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   Simboker

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   06 August 2018, 2:39PM

   The title and the first triptych are my favorites, fascinating idea, almost like showing the beast inside of those beautiful warmaidens.
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      ista3

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      06 August 2018, 4:39PM

      I agree with you Alex
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      napoleonofthestump

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      21 August 2018, 7:00AM

      Thanks, y'all! Yep, going for a little cognitive dissonance there. Might be neat to do an entire set of counter-portraits one of these days...
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   thrawa

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   12 August 2018, 11:45AM

   Fantastic set!
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      napoleonofthestump

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      21 August 2018, 6:59AM

      Thanks!
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   Xorp

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   06 August 2018, 7:47PM

   Your triptych style is amazing. I especially love the images higher in the set in which the side clearly belong to each other!
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      napoleonofthestump

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      21 August 2018, 6:59AM

      Thanks- glad you caught that 'inner beast' thing going on there!
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   05 August 2018, 11:31PM

   Mushrooms,... Interesting. I heard they communicate through their roots system and that they house little people to keep them healthy and clean...
   Wishing you a good trip in other words..
   Very cool looking Set of images,.. Skyrim still looks beautifull
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      napoleonofthestump

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      06 August 2018, 3:04AM

      Oh, they totally do. The way mycorrhizae form the webbing that connects plant roots from all different species, along with non-mycorrhizal fungi in the area, is wild enough, but the way in which the mycorrhizae balance and redistribute everything from carbohydrates to hormones throughout the entire forest (or prairie, or whatever) to creatively and proactively maintain the health of the entire ecosystem bespeaks a shrewd and abiding intellect. Not too different from what our own gut flora do for the mammalian part of us, being as they form a less contiguous but no less communicative bridge to their cousins in the soil.
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   Klaxoid

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   05 August 2018, 10:59PM

   Great set DV! I love the humorous shots the most, but all in a ll an awesome visual adventure
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      napoleonofthestump

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      06 August 2018, 2:58AM

      Thanks! Glad you can appreciate my simultaneous love for epic fantasy and polka-dotted underwear.
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   05 August 2018, 10:34PM

   A mycology conference eh?That leaves it open for all kinds of puns or jokes or one liners. Gee I could say something along the lines of being kept in the dark and fed..but that is not nice and I am nice, to a point. Mushrooms, mmm, or maybe it is fungus, or how about those puffballs. Yep either way you slice em, put them in the pan with some butter and serve them up. Your LUTs are darn perty as is your images, but don't let that go to your head since you hit the hot files my friend even though we both know you deserve it for all of the hard work you have put into them and believe me it darn well shows. Have a great time talking fungus, watch out for those spores eh. I heard a tale of spores taking over some bodies I think
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      napoleonofthestump

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      06 August 2018, 2:56AM

      Ha, thanks! Oh man, puffballs are some good eatin'. A friend and I just cooked up a whole mess of boletes he literally stumbled upon the other day. Cooked up, just like you said, with plenty of butter and garlic and they tasted just like Peking duck. I'm definitely looking forward to the meals at this thing- mycologists eat the best of any scientific discipline.
      
      Reminds me of the one about the polypore who went to a party because he was a fungi. But then he had to leave because there wasn't mushroom...
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   wolfgrimdark

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   05 August 2018, 10:21PM

   Luscious shots. Have a great mushroom talk! :)
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      napoleonofthestump

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      06 August 2018, 2:52AM

      Thanks!
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   BlackMaid

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   05 August 2018, 10:17PM

   GReat pics, all together
   I just came back from my summer vacation and saw, you have released your LUT`s ... a real gift ... as soon s possible I will try them out ... you will see
   
   You are going to a conference about mycorrhizae? This sounds very interesting, because they are a part of us and our beeing ... Have fun
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      napoleonofthestump

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      06 August 2018, 2:50AM

      Thanks, and welcome back!
      
      Aye, mycorrhizae are to plants as gut bacteria are to animals- none of us are truly standalone organisms, we're all a bunch of walking, talking ecosystems. It's especially exciting to see this mycology conference opening up its doors to folks doing all kinds of ecological research and practical work. Should be some neat cross-disciplinary connections coming out of this thing.
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   vronykah

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   05 August 2018, 10:10PM

   Congrats on Hot Files! I'm not sure you packed quite enough images in here to last a week, but I'll try to carry on.
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      napoleonofthestump

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      06 August 2018, 2:47AM

      Could always do like a page-a-day calendar and just look at one at a time (and then smash up your monitor, I guess). I bet whoever invented the page-a-day had some serious beef with trees.
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    Kayol

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    05 August 2018, 10:07PM

    I was totally going to write something along the lines of "get the heck out of here with your flawless screenshots," but since you're really getting the heck out of here it would be kinda rude. So... awesome work, keep it up!
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       napoleonofthestump

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       06 August 2018, 2:46AM

       Yeah, yeah- I'm gonna make like a banana/hockey player/baby/bakery truck/Tom/hat/exorcist and split/get the puck out of here/head out/haul buns/Cruise/go on ahead/get the hell out of here.