Photos from Northern Norway: A photo blog » Fly agaric http://blog.thomaslaupstad.com An unique view from the Arctic Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:33:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Picture of fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) fungus – Memory from the fall in Northern Norway http://blog.thomaslaupstad.com/2007/12/14/picture-of-fly-agaric-amanita-muscaria-fungus-memory-from-the-fall-in-northern-norway/ http://blog.thomaslaupstad.com/2007/12/14/picture-of-fly-agaric-amanita-muscaria-fungus-memory-from-the-fall-in-northern-norway/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:22:13 +0000 Thomas Laupstad http://blog.thomaslaupstad.com/2007/12/14/picture-of-fly-agaric-amanita-muscaria-fungus-memory-from-the-fall-in-northern-norway/ Picture of fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) fungus
Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera September 6th 2007. Click image for larger view.

In this picture you can see the characteristic fly agaric fungus (Amanita muscaria), also known as fly Amanita. There have been some talk that the vikings used to eat them to get into their “berserk mode”, but this is most likely just an urban legend. If you are wondering, I did not eat it ;)

Captured the photo of the mushroom back in September when there was still some green grass to be seen.

Information about the picture:
Camera: Olympus E-500 digital SLR camera
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/11
Focal Length: 35 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Lens: Olympus Zuiko Digital 35mm F3.5 Macro
Flash used
Location: Laupstad (Andørja), Troms in northern Norway

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