To Stack or Not To Stack, that is the question.

The first image is a single shot, the second is a focus stacked composite of 10 photos. It is possible to do more so that the background is also in sharp focus but I think that would detract from the shot and lose the emphasis on the main subject.

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One For Sorrow

Coprinopsis picacea
Magpie Inkcap

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A Fresh Start

Amanita muscaria
Fly Agaric

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Lesser Spotted Lampshade Fungi

*I may have just made that up

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It's a Small World

You can used extension tubes with a normal lens for macro photography, but if you already have a macro lens and use it with a couple of extension tubes then you get some larger than life shots. The largest of these cups is probably less than 3 millimetres diameter and the shot is not cropped. Focus stacking becomes essential as the depth of field of each layer is a fraction of a millimetre.

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Rigid Digits

Most probably Xylaria longipes, known by the common name Dead Moll's Fingers

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Growing Against the Grain

Sprouting from an old fence post

Click to see the full shot if you're missing head and feet.

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Gimme Shelter

Focus stacked image, 20 photos of fungi sheltering under an overhanging log from the rain.

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