Field guide No. 1370

Mushrooms on an autumn forest floor are pin-sharp while the trees behind them smear sideways as if racing past. The forest is in a hurry; the fungi are not.

Still mushrooms, rushing trees

Long exposure, short attention

Mushrooms on an autumn forest floor are pin-sharp while the trees behind them smear sideways as if racing past. The forest is in a hurry; the fungi are not.

Field noteMotion blur drags the trunks and roots sideways while the mushrooms in the leaf litter stay perfectly still.

Specimen
No. 1370
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
a leafy forest floor where only the trees are moving
Nearest existing relative
a train window at speed
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics