Stephen Axford: How fungi changed my view of the world
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Stephen Axford has a unique expertise in macro images and time-lapse photography of fungi. The beauty and scientific accuracy of Stephen’s fungi photography have captivated national and international media, fungi experts and the general public.
This video is produced for YIXI Talks by Stephen Axford and his filmmaker partner, Catherine Marciniak.
I’m on my fourth watch of this masterpiece. The passion and dedication to something most people couldn’t care less about, is honestly breathtaking. If only the rest of the world had just a fraction of the appreciation for nature demonstrated here, the world would be a markedly better place.
Thank you so much for your generous words, your thoughtful comment and your on-going repeat support. You have made our day with such beautiful feedback and wisdom about a message for us all.
agreed, im a computer tech and ..... looks like i might dive into nature too.
No It’s amazing I’m lovin it !!
Beautifully said, and I totally agree!
@@PlanetFungi ppp
"All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once." - Terry Pratchett
I miss the guy, he was a treasure.
I’m reading witches abroad right now, love his writing!
If amanita phalloides takes a few days to kill you then technically you can eat it a couple times.
Where does this quote come from? I thought I'd read all his books, but this is new to me. Maybe there is a gem out there I haven't found yet...
@@S3v3n13tt3r5 right, but it doesn't contradict the statement ^^
People are so eager to see an alien world that they dont even see the alien world right under their feet
Yes you are so right, 90% of whats in and on our BEAUTIFUL planet we don't know about. This is breathtaking.
Thank you both for the lovely feedback. You may also be interested in our documentary about a fungi safari in the Himalayas streaming on many platforms - info at www.planetfungi.movie And there is a masterclass in mushroom photography. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and supporting our work 🍄❤️🎥
They are in your gut too.
@@MikeJones-rk1un I always wondered about that. is there research on this? i would be interested.under what conditions would they grow? I was told molds grow in gut and cause leaky gut as branches cut thru intestine and into other regions. is there a cause for this? (I guess sugar). anyway i'm fascinated to know more. i was told by eastern doctors not to eat any mushrooms (specific advice to me, not to others, due to my personal biology) ... and wondered if it was due to this growing thing.
... add to that, the mushrooms surely have a form of consciousness and i often wonder about that. what intelligence do they transmit? emit? some root systems I've heard are half the height of the usa. I wonder if it has, for example a code. we need computer science views on this, perhaps?
The purple mushroom blew me away…exquisite. I’ve always loved the sculptural fungi that look like abstract art. Nature is truly the greatest artist.
Hello 👋how are you doing?
God is the artist, He created everything.
Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim"
@@Arrasel, free will doesn't exist then?
@@spiderjerusalem8505 pretty sure Christians believe in free will
This man loves mushrooms so much that he stands unaffected in a cloud of bugs. Impressive.
hes blind
spores
@@yagashio whoever dressed him must be a funny person (if you didn't know, he's blind)!
@@mo938 How is he blind if he's an enthusiastic photographer? source?
@@dirtywhitellama what do you mean how is he blind? He can't see. That's how. Just because you're blind doesn't mean you can't see the beauty in things, or even capture that beauty in the form of a photograph. This man is an inspiration and deserves respect. Show some respect!
Once in a while, the youtube algorithm impresses me with something of true quality.
This is facts
Should check out paul stamets fungi master
Facts
I see you too, are a man of culture, Sir.
Blessed
"The forest were starting to make sense, it wasn't just a bunch of trees" This made me chuckle. What an amazing documentary!
When I was around 5th grade, I would spend a lot of my free time downloading images and gifs of mushrooms onto my school computer because I thought they were so cool. I recognized a lot of them in this video; I had no idea how much one person's work impacted my obsession with mushrooms! I want to become a mycologist someday and also help local communities. What you do sounds so amazing.
Same.
Squash fed -Good for you! Do it! Fungi are essential to soil remediation after fires, pollution or deforestation. You can be one of the “good guys” helping to correct and reduce the damage done by humans. Maybe, in time, there will be a skilled micologist in every municipality, advising on how best to manage the soil, forests and even domestic gardens in the community. We owe it to the earth to learn about and preserve the ecosystems which support all life.
@@judeirwin2222 Thanks for the support!
Good job kid. Contribute to society what you will discover someday..
Me too! A month ago I found myself obsessing with mushrooms
To listen to someone who has found their passion is bliss
Truest words of the month
They always make the best teachers and researchers. It's a gift to us all. Like Fungi.
Whoever chose the soundtrack has obviously also had their mind changed by fungi
Or fast food
It's a Didgeridoo, a native Australian instrument. Its sound is pretty fitting to this documentary because it has these ethereal, mystical, and alien vibes, much like the fungi themselves.
Right
Hahahha
😂😂😂😂😂
"Life on this planet is more interconnected than I ever could have imagined" - I'm awestruck by your pictures! Thank you Stephen!
This man is not only a photographer but also a wonderful teacher! I wanted to watch only a few minutes. But it was so fascinating that I didn't want the documentary to end. I would like to learn more !
Same! I thought, yeah I'll just watch this for a minute while I'm cooking, just some background noise-- but then I stopped to watch this video instead! 😅 It is fascinating. 🍄👍🏼🌎
the KZhead algorithm decided I should spend a half an hour of my time learning about a guy who photographs mushrooms. I am not disappointed.
best accidental recommendation ever !!!
same
These are wonderful comments 🙏 thank you 😊
Same here.
too cool for school! loved it. Makes me feel interconected and yet small.
props to him for doing this entire talk while being swarmed by mosquitoes.
That's what I thought! I would've been swollen and dead 6 times by then. And I expect the Dutch ones I have to cope with are just softies compared to most other kinds on the world
Haha it's all I see!!
Nah, they're fams
I knew I couldn't have been the only one to think this, I would have been swatting at them the entire time
I couldn’t stop watching the mosquitoes 😂
I am literally gobsmacked, lost for words. I’m Australian to and have never seen, or thought to look for anything like these beautiful works of art. You have given me a whole new view of the world too. Thank you, another incredibly important reason we need to protect our forests and woodlands. What secrets are these gorgeous things keeping for us.
26:30 "the same but different" they shared a laugh as fellow humans, and carried on. This moment was surprisingly deep and poignant to me. We are all the same but different! We are all brothers and sisters in humanity ♥️
🤦🏻♂️🤫
“Bright Mushrooms” :-)
I’m so glad to know I’m not the only one that picked up on this. It also portrayed the generous and beautiful spirit of this man who I fell in love with during the course of this video. They just don’t make them like that anymore. Do they?
I appreciate his clear paced speech and that there is no loud competing music like discovery channel productions.
Exactly. This is high quality nature programming that's about substance more than spectacle. Funnily enough, the footage is what's truly spectacular. The program isnt made to be the spectacle, for the sake of spectacle itself. It's just pure wonder and beauty, no sensationalist nonsense.
It's almost as if he isn't like the elite Hollywood types that think we are all complete fucking retards.
Agreed.
Yeep. Nice to hear "a normal human" talk 😁, if you get what I mean. Down to Earth, no hyping. Cosh I'm sick of all the hype around. Gimme some peace please.
YES.
I couldn’t divert my mind at the fact that he is wearing a “fungi fetish” shirt
@@debbitage I do consider myself a fungi collector, enthusiast, and promoter
You haven't lived untill you've inserted micilium into your body imo.
He loves himself some sweaty yeast infection
HAHAHA I know right??
@@dr.doppeldecker3832 oh god thats a terrible image.
I love when people can talk about something with so much passion that it makes me passionate too. What a man!
Those photos of fungi are some of the most beautiful natural images I've ever seen. Thank you, for sharing your passion with us here on YT, sir. May God bless you & your countrymen thru the hardships you are all now experiencing. Love from Texas, USA!!!
"But when you face death, it makes you rethink your life" - Stephen Axford
Yah but if you face death and u die. U not gonna rethink shjt
@@cibdizzy No shit sherlock.
It is. People will only appreciate life after they lost it
Not always. Not always.
Have you even had an experience?
I love how not over-stimulating this is, on top of being wonderfully beautiful, scientifically fascinating, and narrated by a talented and humble but passionate chiller with an Australian accent. What’s not to love here?
You are so right
Wow, thank you for that lovely and thoughtful feedback - you have made our day. If you are interested in fungi or in seeing more, you may also be interested in our 52 minute documentary about a fungi safari in the remote forests of the Eastern Himalayas - packed with new fungi finds, fabulous festivals and many edible, poisonous, weird and stunning mushrooms. It's called "Planet Fungi - north east India" and info about it can be found on our website - www.planetfungi.movie There is also a fungi photography masterclass which is designed to help people take the best mushroom shot they can with either a digital camera or an iphone and covers some advanced focus stacking techniques in the field and in post-production. Once again thanks for supporting our work about the wonderful kingdom of fungi.🙏🍄❤️🎥
Wow, thank you so much for your kind response and for the recommendations- I’ll be watching Planet Fungi this evening for sure!
I agree. It also makes it easier for KZhead's auto-caption to be more accurate.
The main difference is that this documentary is NOT designed for the "normal" american market. Therefore it avoids artificial drama and does not dumb down.It treats the subject and the viewer with respect... Well done folks...lovely work.
Huge respect for this man! He is the Fungi David Attenborough. This is the greatest compliment I can come up with
I love the calm, slow speaking. The longer shots and just stills of the fungi. That's enough. Rare nowadays.
When he said that he'd use a glowing mushroom covered stick to see the trails at night..... I felt that
the mighty mushroom is my teacher ! . . . the glowing mushroom guides my path ! . . . all hail to the omnipresent mushroom ! ( ummm . . . too far out ? B-) )
How many people want to see a book of all his fungi photos? Me!
i'd pay for it
I’d pay for it, too.
SIGN ME UP
Yeah if it was printed well
Chapter 1: edible fungi Chapter 2: non edible fungi The end
Amazing. I appreciate this video, and now fungi much more than I would have ever thought! 🍄I'm sure when this gentleman's wife passed away from cancer, he probably didn't think that life would go on, or that he'd ever be happy again. I'm glad he turned his hobby into real research that helps people. Perhaps the cure to cancer, or other horrible diseases can be found in fungi- or elsewhere in the rainforests. We must take care of our planet. 🌎🙏 Love to you all ❤
I've heard so many wonderful things about magic mushrooms but I can't easily get some, Is there any realiable source I can purchase from??
It seems to me that this gentle chap has undergone tragedy and trouble in the past and, somehow he’s made a new life for himself, revealing an otherwise hidden world. Thank you Stephen.
What a kind compliment....i agree
I dont know what would make you think hes experienced tragedy. Let's hope you're wrong
@@LukeMcGuireoides he explains it in his video
@@LukeMcGuireoides It's explained very clearly within the first couple of minutes of the video, someone wasn't paying attention... His wife died of breast cancer and he himself experienced a life-threatening illness.
@@LukeMcGuireoides it's been said before but rewatch the start of the video.
My face was lit up like an excited child through this whole documentary. I had no idea who was behind so much of my favourite art inspiration until now! I adore fungi and this has made me all the more passionate. Thank you so, so much for all of your hard work and artistry- as well as for bringing the hidden world of our fungi friends front and center!
Wow, thank you for that lovely and generous feedback. Glad you enjoyed it! If you are interested in fungi or in seeing more, you may also be interested in our 52 minute documentary about a fungi safari in the remote forests of the Eastern Himalayas - packed with new fungi finds, fabulous festivals and many edible, poisonous, weird and stunning mushrooms. It's called "Planet Fungi - north east India" and info about it can be found on our website - www.planetfungi.movie There is also a fungi photography masterclass which is designed to help people take the best mushroom shot they can with either a digital camera or an iphone and covers some advanced focus stacking techniques in the field and in post-production. Once again thanks for supporting our work about the wonderful kingdom of fungi.🙏🍄❤️🎥
I hope you continue to expand on your passion. (:
When the first timelapse played I smiled so wide my cheeks hurt! It was absolutely magical. I felt actual wonder.
The fungi that glows in the dark really surprised me and watching Timelapse videos of fruiting fungi is amazing. Such a great video, thank you very much.
Barely started this documentary and I am absolutely mesmerized. I’ve never seen fungi this spectacular in Canada (although I don’t go hunting them!). WOW.
I love the fact that any one of us could go for a walk in a forest and find an undiscovered mushroom species.
@@orderusp6394 positive, I’m not saying it’s as easy as just going for a walk and finding one but the possibility is there.
Not in europe
@@zejdland *sigh* ... crushed my hopes just like that.
Every year I see new varieties in my wooded yard, they are very intriguing.
Spring is a few weeks away for me... but I have pristine wilderness all around me. I am going to spend the summer photographing and documenting.... :-)
The photos are brilliant. This gentleman"s words are more impressive still. Thank you Stephen
There's a line in "A Town Like Alice" in which an Englishwoman says, "I suppose one can't call him a gentleman, since he's from Australia."
@@JohnDoe-fu6zt Yeah like making snide condescending comments makes her a lady.
@@daveerickson9524Perhaps making snide condescending remarks makes her an Englishwoman. I think that was the understated suggestion of the Anglo-Australian novelist, Nevil Shute. Makes me laugh, and I think of it every time I hear the words "Australian" and "gentleman" in the same sentence.
@@JohnDoe-fu6zt I like it, perhaps I should read the novel. tks
A very gentle man from fungi place.
This is what should be shown in schools to show the children the real beauty and amazing wounded the planet has. Thank you for a wonderful journey I would never think of.
The amount of time to complete this must be huge. Thank you all for this. Many of those I recognize but in virginia. They have slight alterations but so similar I feel it is the same. It's like how California magnolias are almost like the Texas ones. Or mimosa hostilis to mimosa teneflura. Hostilis I can find in nature in Texas. In Virginia it's mainly teneflura
Would love to meet Stephen Axford, he seems like a Fungi.
Har!
Your comment should have 10000 likes
truee
Booo hiss. ..that's terrible lol
Like that Japanese horror movie Attack of the Mushroom People?
Man was in constant attack of mosquitos and flies and didnt squint for a single moment
this disturbed me on so many levels lol
As another australian, you just stop noticing them after a while
I believe they're fungus gnats!
Australians my friend, australians
at some point in the job, some of us foresters either get used to mosquito bites that we don't feel it or straight up develop strategies to repel every single one while at work
This video is simply outstanding. Currently, I am taking field biology and we are studying mushroom and how they improve our natural surroundings. I have an exam on the subject and looking for videos to add to my study material, I found your video. I loved the work you have done. You are creating a legacy for the world of fungi. I will send your videos to my professor. Please keep up this outstanding work. Thank you 😊.
Mushrooms remind me of my childhood with my grandparents they would take me at 5 am to pick out mushrooms and would teach me the ones u can eat and the dangerous ones ❤I miss them amazing memories
It's insane to me how fungi species manage to swing wildly between more vibrant colors than even the most elegant of flowers to assorted forms of The Thing.
Mushrooms and The Thinh are pretty similar.
This is honestly one of the most enjoyable, personable, moving and inspiring nature documentaries I've watched.
I totally agree❤🍄🍄
Thank you so much 🙏
Beautiful photography as well
Exactly I got goosebumps
@@darkcnotion lol
Thank you so much! A whole new world opened up to me and I was in awe to hear how the fungi have been growing after the destructive fires in Australia. Both your passion, skill and the fungi bring me hope.
Im just in awe, thank you for this documentary and for letting us in and telling us your story.
When you develop an appreciation for the natural world, the entire world becomes fascinating. It always helped my depression to just go outside and go for a walk or hike. Everything from Rocks, trees, to animals fascinates me so much and it has improved my life tremendously.
' If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to Man as it is : infinite. ( William Blake )
I totally agree, man. Nature is so beautiful and amazing. And yet we spend 90% of our life indoors. Go outside, people ✌️
Well said my friend. Love you
It's a well-known scientific fact that spending time in nature helps our psyche. It actually promotes mental and even physical healing. We destroy nature to our absolute detriment.
@@2msvalkyrie529 Needs a comma after "cleansed".
I really hope one of those amazing new species get named after this guy. His passion is so inspiring
He does so far have one species named after him Paneolus axfordii - ironically a mushroom in China that he has never photographed. But he was very grateful his efforts were recognised in this way, Thank you for the lovely feedback. You may also be interested in our documentary about a fungi safari in the Himalayas streaming on many platforms - info at www.planetfungi.movie And there is a masterclass in mushroom photography. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and supporting our work 🍄❤️🎥
@@PlanetFungi that's cool! But I will just call that mushroom Axford's umbrella
@@PlanetFungi That's so awesome. Thanks for the great content. Subscribed!
@@PlanetFungi Axford Bluecaps
Right on!! He deserves it!
Your photographs are amazing, the fungi even more so. I went for a walk after rain near my home in a NSW coastal forest last week and saw many types of mushrooms I had never seen. I took some pics just with my phone camera. Taking time to admire nature is great for our mental wellbeing. Thanks Stephen,
I am watching this again and making questions and a work book for my girls, talk about an awesome science exploration! Thank you for sharing Mr. Axford!
You have made our day. Thank you 🙏
holymoly it's itching all over my body watching this guy standing there in the middle of a cloud of mosquitos.
I know - what to do - with a beautiful forest came pesky mosquitos . But you'll be pleased to know he was well protected and came away without a single bite.
@@PlanetFungi not one bite?! Fungi are worldchangingly beautiful and fascinating, but that may be the most amazing thing about this video 😄
@@PlanetFungi sometimes we need to put up with a little to get lot.... or little ❤😇🇨🇦😊
If we ever get body enhancement tech I'm making my skin mosquito proof. Maybe turn myself into a living bug zapper... Sweet revenge.
There are mosquito repellent creams you can use in these situations 😃 we have to slather it on in India during the monsoons
This guy looks like he's reached Nirvana and is one with everything now. So inspiring to see someone find their unguessable calling.
my dumbass thought u were trying to see he lookes like kurt cobain
Hes a truly fortunate man and he knows it. Yet hes humble and his sense of wonder cant be faked
This was very professional. As a gardener and composter, I notice every little fungus growing all year round (except for winter). And I bring to the dining room table all manner of weirdness for everybody to look at (not to eat). I even see mycelium in the soil for which the fruiting body is not yet presented. I realize that one has to walking around in the rainy season to find most of these fruiting bodies.
Mr Axford it's so immersive in mushroom world. As you can see he can't berely move in fact he looks like he has grown out the the ground too !! He is a legend no doubt!
This guy is a great communicator. I was engaged from start to finish.
I was thinking so too! I was listening from start to finish! Even with my attention ptoblems... XD
Yeah I was also very aware of that. Very good narrator of his own story with a nice voice. Great guy 😊
@@Eglantin same
"I take photographs of fungi" This is a guy thats got life figured out
Yes. He's happy. You got sarcasm. Who end up dying happy?
@@elvenkind6072 I don’t think he was being sarcastic
Retired obviously
Yeah and I hear he is a really fun guy to hang out with too
Life’s better when you take pleasure in the simplest things around you, searching for fungi is one of life’s biggest delights 🍄
I only hope one day I find my passion such as this lad has. So cool to see someone talking in depth about about things they know and care so much about.
Wow. I just have spent some of the best minutes of my day learning and being blown away! Thank you very much from Costa Rica. ❤️🇨🇷🍄
This man proudly wears the t-shirt of his kink.
I'm happy to have provided you with your 69th thumbs up 😂
This was so enjoyable. I’m glad that he found purpose and meaning in his life after going through heartache, with the snap of that first picture. What an amazing journey!
So sooo true. You can’t help but root for him
I love this video. It's like being in a classroom, listening to ur teacher explaining things about mushrooms. You have such a soothing voice, I could listen to all day. Thanks.
This was fabulous! I’m so inspired! I started mushroom photography a few years ago. The glow in the dark mushrooms were incredible! WOW!
This dude turned the “bird watching phase” of adulthood into a whole new successful profession for him
😂😂😂😂😂
Aha, I didn't know what hit me like two years ago - I've never been interested in birds, but suddenly I was! Now I can tell people that it wasn't my fault, I just came into that age 😅
@@christinae30 I think it's just a sudden realization of the beautiful intricacies of nature that we overlooked in our youth. Birds end up being the topic so often because they're one of the few kinds of wild animals that will routinely come within view, especially in any kind of interesting variety
26:00 it's crazy how that guy casually mentions the glowing mushrooms like they're super common, and they turn out to be a completely undocumented species
jellyfish glow in the dark too
@@miguelmejia4656 even some rotting logs glow. Freaked me out.
Yes, that guy let me thinking species are tied to a pretty small classification scheme.
That's glowing fungi making those rotting logs glow. There are many plants and animals that bioluminesce in most every ecosystem across the globe. Marine ecosystems have the most though, by far
@@francoestrubia6503 Interesting theory. Broke off small section took it home. Seen no sign of myclium. Did continue to glow for almost a week. Was very drywood
Mostly mushrooms make me uncomfortable but this, this is a work of art so beautiful i even shed a tear. Thank you for enlightening me.
this was absolutely wonderful. shocking really. and i have worked as sort of a life-scientist for decades. this gentleman is my hero.
Genetic_tripstore^^
This fine gentleman is eminently deserving of having his name attached to his blue fungi.
I agree
The modern convention is to name it based off of morphology, as it is more useful to other scientists. Although he has done a lot of great work!
The Blue Axford
inb4 "bluu phungee" but nah that'd be dumb
Mushrooms have changed my view of the world too. But it usually wears off in 4-8 hours.
This man started the year I was born. I'm leaving uni with a degree in comp sci... I also have a college degree in bio, and I love how incredibly complex and important mushrooms are, especially the hyphae-root network. This might end up being my calling at this rate
Yes! I love the fungi community and the passionate curiosity that propels us to proselytize about the greatest Kingdom to anyone in shouting distance. Peace and power to all of you neeeeerrds😊
Some people try to go viral on social media. This guy went fungal.
I love this!
Underrated comment!!
@@explorateur8159 ok boomer
Tee hee hee 🤭
Nice
I like how his Tshirt just says "fungi fetish"
That's one kinky old man
God i really need that shirt, immediately saw it and looked it up but couldnt find it ):
@They're Distorting Your Rhythm 128 nope I’m sleeping
@@nateypotatey2106 i also want that shirt, i'll take a look around and link if i find anything
@@RE-xv9fp we all know that the old guy very well knew what "fetish" meant. (^_-)
It’s amazing how much fungi looks like undersea coral.
Yes
I love how this man followed his heart 💜
The Amount Of Mosquitoes Around Him Is Disturbing, But That Makes Him More Of A Boss
Right? And he ignored them all. Props.
Disturbed by quitoes?
He prob has used some mosquitoes spray hah
fungus gnats?
Fungus fairies
Not sure why I was recommended this. The other day I was walking through a scrap of woodland and saw some startling red on the floor. Initially I thought it was litter, but on closer inspection it was a fungus. I took some photos and searched for them on Google when I got home. They were scarlet elf cups. Now after watching this video I think I am obsessed with fungi.
Scarlet Elf Cups are edible. There are recipes right here on KZhead if you'd be interested in harvesting some samples!
@@roisinnigcrainn7722 I considered it but I prefered to leave them there growing and looking beautiful.
Your phone is spying on you
Brilliant! check out some of Paul Stamet's work as well, and more of @Planet Fungi.....and if you haven't yet see it, the beautiful Documentary Fantastic Fungi. Here's the link to the trailer...kzhead.info/sun/e5WRfbJrjqBsfZs/bejne.html I believe some of Stephen Axefords work is in it. They are the piece of life that if fully understood, I think would shift our perception of everything. The mycelium and fungi are outside us and within us, the communication network between everything alive. The more I learn the more I am humbled and realize how much we are missing out on by not wanting to be part of this incredible symbiotic life. Maybe look for someone in your area who leads forest tours. I have been on some amazing ones.
Purple mushroom? Wow I never knew one existed either! Thanks for sharing! 👍🏻😊
This was an amazing watch. I could honestly listen to this man talk about anything though. Much love my fellow fungi forager.
*Recommendations:* "How fungi changed my view of the world" *Me at 3am:* "Now this is the quality content i've been searching for."
Why is it I always found these comments deep in the night lol..
Just found this vid at 3:00 am, too. I wonder if the KZhead algorithm changes when it's dealing with people who should be asleep already 🤔
@@letshearyourverse It's 10:40AM you posted this 3min a go can't be 3 am even if you live at the other side of the planet. Anyway i think you are on to something here, because this is not the first time i noticed i get recommended videos where people comment about nigt tubing when i do that as well..
@@letshearyourverse I was more about minutes not hours my good dude. ✌ I tend to pay attention to little details, can't resist it..
literally me right now
Ugh, I was def crying when he said that the burnt forest had fungi growing in just 2 days or so. It's inspiring to know that despite destruction, something prevails.
Death is most often the birth place for a new generation of life.
most species in aus have evolved to reproduce after a fire, dont be sad its an erea of new life for that bushland.
You guys want to watch Princess Mononoke, definitely the best illustration of this concept !
Absolutely agree with all the replies and it is wonderful to have this perspective about death. It’s just heartbreaking that a forest that takes hundreds of years to grow can be burnt in a matter of hours.
@@LeBakalite LOVE anything Miyazaki 💕 have you also watched Nausica of the valley of the wind?
I love how drastic the photographic improvement was after the first photo.
I love people with specific niche that they are passionate about. It’s so interesting! The world of fungi has expanded because of this video! Thank you!
This guy gets it. Fungi are so bizarre and interesting, yet so easily underappreciated. I still think there must still be a whole world to learn from studying fungi.
No, there really isnt; we know almost everything about mold and fungi.
gimme back my bandwidth >:(
@@solomonreal1977 NEVER!
@@BanditOfBandwidth THUMBS DOWN!!
@@solomonreal1977 How about I give you Bandlength?
I love listening to people taking about the things they're passionate about I never knew fungi could be so interesting!
its even much more,maybe it was time constrained.Just the interconnection of a forest is pretty amazing.the biggest living thing on earth,by so so much is a fungi who spread across kilometers and kilometers of a forest.it was tested and its only one.He can sense needs from trees and transport nutrients and water from one site to another.he can kill or protect individual trees and manage the entire forest.he can sense various agressions and emit an electric signal different from each type of agression.just one individual from a species of those millions of species.
The way he keeps his focus while at least 60 mosquitoes make his face and hat there new home is AMAZING!!
Fortunately, people like you are sharing the art they are doing w the new technologies that you are able to capture and share. Thank you for having as much passion for sharing your new found knowledge as you have for learning and discovering it. Our schools and societies aren’t teaching us the importance of looking down. We’ve always been guided to look up and see what’s in the sky. However. With small tidbits if info thrown at a young person like this video. It seeds a new curiosity and grows a new garden of knowledge. Thank you sir for planting e joyful seeds of curiosity, learning, discoveries, new ways to living to nourish and replenish the planet and humanity, and eventually wisdom to carry to the next generations after us!! A house I lived in for about 10 years gave me a new discovery and appreciation for how a small yard with a few various types of trees, grass, and soil interconnect and support each other. We had a couple of hurricanes and after all i of f the wind and rain. The yard became a mushroom garden with hundreds and hundreds of mushrooms. My daughter was only 4 at the time and we had a blast walking around talking about fairies and other fun stuff! My daughter saw all of those mushroom and dairy houses and was like”, momma, momma! The fairies must have a bunch of work to do from the hurricane And they picked our yard to build their new community and houses while the work on the local trees, forests, soil, and gardens!! I was in as much disbelief as she was when I saw of the mushrooms, the various types, and the different sizes. I spent 2 days taking photos. Then I spent hours and hours researching mushrooms and how to identify edible vs poison types. I never tested my knowledge though. No reason to take those chances when I knew many could be and are poisonous. Especially with several of them surrounding the several oak trees we had. I learned so many interesting things about mushrooms and still carry a passion and appreciation for them every since. Even before this I have always felt that fungi living around us in nature is the key to learning about how fungi effects our insides and our bodies. Along with learning more predictable methods to preventing cancers and other chronic diseases for humanity. I remember about 20 years ago I was just looking at a huge oak tree. It has a huge round bulb shape sticking out of the side of the trunk. I thought to myself” I wonder what caused it to grow a round mass like shape on its trunk like that. Then one thought led to another of thinking about how it could be a type of benign like tumor if a tree. Then I started thinking about how a fungus or mold can spread and begin to start killing the tree and plants. Before long much of the forest could be destroyed through this network just like cancerous cells take over someone’s body and the cancer cells learn how to replicate. Eventually destroying all of the other good cells in the body. Not that I know exactly what I’m taking about but just like this video explains. The network of mushroom fungi forks around and decomposes old rotting wood makes me think about a person moving up in age and maybe carrying inflammation inside their body over the years causing long term damage to their tissue to eventually a small area of tissue becomes severely damaged and the body’s immune system realizes the system is requiring too much energy and function to continue to repair that one area (maybe because a lot of energy is also being used to work on other unhealthy areas of the body. Therefore, the immune system network begins to treat that area as if that tissue is dead and begins a type decomposing process as a way to get that bad tissue out of the area and eventually out jf the body. So. Our bodily functions figure out a way to develop a type of fungus to break that body part down to a point to where we are able to eventually sweat it out and/or break it down to a waste product. However, if the area becomes bigger or another part of the body breaks down something triggers this decomposing network of fungi/bacteria to gain to much territory and overtakes the other good bacteria and other cells and eventually becomes the dominating group. Again, I’m just allowing speculation of my imagination run wild using what facts I do know mix in with stuff I have no idea what happens! Maybe to help someone understand how our bodies have thousands of little living organisms with hundreds of different functions going on inside of us working non stop to keep us healthy and alive. It’s hard for us to even conceive this because we are covered w skin and can’t see all of the hard non stop work going on inside of our bodies or brains. Before my mom passed away with cancer the oncologist told us her tumor had a type of fungus they found when they did a biopsy of her tumor. I can’t remember what they called it but it was some far out name. are constantly battling process becomes Tlater when I researched had around the different types fairies must have decided our yard is the best place to set up their new community.
These photographs were glorious. I backed up the video a couple of times to stare at the Fungi. How on earth do 535 people give this a thumbs down? I'm beginning to believe that there are people who spend their days giving dislikes to videos.
Thanks for the lovely support.
@@PlanetFungi He's right though. You are an amazing photographer and the beauty you captured in each of your photos helped us better understand your passion on the subject. I never thought mushrooms were particularly beautiful until now
That's absurd. No one should dislike this. Probably climate change deniers lol. Whoever they are they're foolish imo
It's now 666 Thumbs down - Some whiners had nothing to do but complain.
@@martyhorten3743 😁Probably some elite didn’t like the remark. Some are like their dad..steal, kill, destroy. Too bad. Life’s happier and more content - fulfilling on the other side of the coin.
KZhead algorithm: He’ll literally watch anything
funny.
And original.
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Me: YES
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What a gift this video is! Everyone should watch it multiple times. So glad I stumbled across it.
That calmness amongst those critters. It would literally take me 2 seconds to completely flip out.
I’m thirty seconds in and I’m already so much happier than when I started this video.
Stop being a narcissist. No one cares.
@@janicep1508 Woah there- all she said was this video made her happy. Stop projecting your self hate onto others.
@@Approximation i agree
@@Approximation she watched for 30 seconds before she needed the world to make it about her feelings. Yeah, classic narcissism right there.
@@janicep1508 sounds like you're projecting
I love fungi and I can't express how happy I am to find stuff about it. There are too few documentaries about fungi :(
Thank you for the lovely feedback. As you are interested in fungi or in seeing more, you may also be interested in our 52 minute documentary about a fungi safari in the remote forests of the Eastern Himalayas - packed with new fungi finds, fabulous festivals and many edible, poisonous, weird and stunning mushrooms. It's called "Planet Fungi - north east India" and info about it can be found on our website - www.planetfungi.movie There is also a fungi photography masterclass which is designed to help people take the best mushroom shot they can with either a digital camera or an iphone and covers some advanced focus stacking techniques in the field and in post-production. Once again thanks for supporting our work about the wonderful kingdom of fungi.🙏🍄❤️🎥
@@PlanetFungi , Eastern Himalayas you say? I live relatively near the Himalayas ( in Bangladesh), so thanks for this video! I would definitely check it out!
So well articulated and everything ties so well into the next topic. Answered my questions before I could even think them.. amazing
Thank you so much for this lovely and informative video. It was surprisingly touching, and a much-needed dose of wholesomeness in these troubled times.
I’m over here thinking that I’m the only person that finds taking pictures of fungi amazing. Now I need to step up my time lapse game.
Why don't you post your pictures?
Stephan, absolutely beautiful.! What an epic journey. You were gifted a little purple mushroom and found the entire planet. People like you are a gift to us all. You give us knowledge and you discover beauty. This is the biggest thumbs-up I've ever awarded a nature programme. Thank you for sharing this with us all.
Hi Geoff, thanks so much for this wonderfully generous message. Cath and I both love your line "You were gifted a little purple mushroom and found the entire planet". Do you mind if we use it in our synopsis and your review with your name. It truly is some of the loveliest and most thoughtful feedback we have had and we appreciate you taking the time to give it. You may also be interested in our fungi safari in the Himalayas www.planetfungi.movie
@@PlanetFungi wow Stephan , absolutely beautiful!
Couldnt have said it better. Thank you!
@@PlanetFungi thank you so much! I love fungi and photography as well - excellent video - there is no way I couldn't watch till the end
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Thank you, Stephen Axford. I'm glad to know there are people like you in the world. Peace be with you.
I stumbled on this video. It’s so interesting and full of information about the funguses and the forest ecosystem. I love all the photos of all the mushrooms. Their colors and shapes are beyond belief. Wonderful work! Thank you!
its amazing how such wonderful content is available to us for free with just a few simple clicks, yet ironically very few people ever get to appreciate it
Thank you for the lovely feedback. We do try to provide a great deal of fungi content for free to introduce people to this wonderful kingdom of life. And you may also be interested in our documentary about a fungi safari in the Himalayas streaming on many platforms - info at www.planetfungi.movie Thanks so much for sharing your kind words and supporting our work 🍄❤️🎥
In a few generations, with techno-cerebral connections allowing the human brain to directly interface with repositories of information many magnitudes larger than the entire sum of human knowledge as it stands now, our descendants will pity just how little we of this era could ever actually know or experience.
@@BuddyLee23 from your lips... just imagine what we will know then!
Are we ignoring how still he is among all those mosquitoes? He's a heroe! 😂
Haha - thanks for noticing. You may also be interested in our documentary about a fungi safari in the Himalayas streaming on many platforms - info at www.planetfungi.movie And there is a masterclass in mushroom photography. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and supporting our work 🍄❤️🎥
@@PlanetFungi O'll totally watch it. Please, make sure to put in the video's description, the fungi you're mentioning. There are also a lot of species we see in the video and don't have a clue of what they are. It is amaziwyou reinvented yourself. I wish you all the best to find peace in your memories and in the forest. We are also the forest. Good fortune! 🥂
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Until one goes in his nose...
Those could be males, cause they prefer nectar over blood.
I was having the most stressful day and then I came across this video. I am so glad I stopped to watch because now, I am humbled by all of what Stephen explained, about how we are just one organism on this complex planet. My stress has fizzled. Excellent...just excellent. Thank you.
Amazing documentary.clearly shows how passionate you are about them.its people like you who show case our planet and make us realize what a beautiful place we live in.Thankyou .