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Edit: this is not gimp related at all but probably just the issue of my screen calibration. I'll pluck away at it until its right, thanks for all the help.

Edit 2: installing an ICC profile has made a significant difference and the mushroom are a bit over saturated but not exactly glowing anymore.

I know both of these photos are oversaturated, I am working on a laptop with a pretty shit screen so all of my photos look awful. I am trying to fix it but I'd like to fix this first.

Gimp 3.0.4 This is the exact same file, the left is displayed on gimp and the right is the saved .jpg in the linux mint photo viewer. The right side photo is so much more saturated than the left. The mushrooms look like they're glowing. Boxes ticked on save: progressive (in options), optimized (advance options) save colour profile (in metadata) - I have saved without colour profile and same effect.

This seems to be an issue with GIMP but I don't use any other editing software on my laptop so who knows. When I post these photos online the effect is the same as on the right. When viewing online, sometimes the photo will be normal but when you click through to the full image it loads as oversaturated. I'm sure there is something so simple I am overlooking but I just can't think of what.

Please let me know if you need more info!

I gave a talk on outdoor mushroom cultivation this spring and gave everyone wine cap spawn to inoculate their gardens. Had an extra bag and was able to do a bed of my own. I was really impressed with how vigorous the mycelium was compared to growing other oyster species outdoors.

I will say these had a really strong flavour that was not my favorite. I left them longer than I wanted to so I could get a spore print to show my mushroom club so could have been better had I picked them younger

I'm having some trouble finding a whole lot of info on this model, finding some stuff but is older so I get it. I've wanted an extra scope for a while now, something used that I can pack around to other people's houses when I take my friends out mushroom hunting and what not. Seller says everything is in working condition, looks like it was refurbished or serviced recently as there's a tag from optics company, not sure. For $150CAD I don't think its a bad deal but wondering what others think. Right now I am working with a swift 380T, I'll miss the phototube but I might actually be able to get a darkfield filter to work on this.

Edit: I haven't purchased this yet, I'm hoping to do that tomorrow. It is a bit out of the way for me, about a 1.5hr drive so I guess that factors into the price

Edit 2: Bought the microscope and its really nice for what it is. The best part is my overpriced little darkfield filter (that didn't work for my swift) works great in this scope. So weird to not have a dark spot in the middle.

Stopped off on an old logging road to get a photo of this lichen and realized I almost walked into a moose, its tracks were so fresh the water was still pooling into them.

So I found a nice big flush of these guys and assumed R. brevipes even if it is a bit early for those in my area. I made a cut on the gills just to check if it was lactarius, this photo was after about 1-2mins of waiting for it to bleed. Uploading to iNat I always check my assumptions against the algorithm and it's top suggestion was Lactarius controversus - blushing milkcap. Now that I am looking at it the gills do have a rosy look to them. I couldn't find much info on how quickly L. controversus starts to bleed but maybe I didn't wait long enough. There was no zonation on the cap. Found under pine/spruce/fir/poplar growing closely scattered but fouund them in also a group of about 4-5. Northern interior of BC, Canada.

I'm pretty sure this is R. brevipes but would love feedback because I'm pretty inexperienced with ID and L. controversus wasn't even on my radar before uploading to iNat.

These are definitely my favourite homegrown mushroom to eat but my least favourite to grow (I just find them a little finicky). Not sure if this qualifies as a rosecomb mutation, but I did have actual rosecomb growth on subsequent fruiting from the same culture.

Cyclocybe aegerita

Makes an excellent dye for wool but its not as common in my immediate area so usually only harvest from the ground. I was happy to see this big doug loaded with it.