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A Divergent Lens Nature Photography

Welcome to A Divergent Lens! I'm an Autistic and ADHD nature photographer.

In a world not designed for neurodivergent minds, I seek to explore how my divergent sensory experiences allow me to capture the beauty of nature in a unique way.

08/09/2025

Tucked away beneath a canopy of rhododendron and moss, this waterfall doesn’t call attention to itself. No towering drop, no thundering roar. Just layered stone, filtered light, and the steady hush of water tracing its path. It’s the kind of place that asks nothing but your attention — and gives it back tenfold.

08/03/2025

Standing tall among moss and summer light, this beveled cap bolete (Tylopilus Badiceps) looks carved from mahogany and wine. Its rich tones and sturdy form are a quiet reminder that the forest is beginning to shift, that autumn is just around the corner. Every visit reveals something new, and sometimes it's a mushroom like this that tells the story best.

07/31/2025

Beneath the forest’s green glow, this delicate Powder Cap Amanita (Amanita Farinosa) rises like a porcelain sculpture from the moss. Its finely textured cap and subtle posture seem almost too perfect to be real. Yet here it is, ephemeral, grounded, and quietly commanding its small corner of the world. Sometimes wonder is found not in the rare, but in the simply overlooked.

07/26/2025

Standing tall and solitary among the moss, this delicate mushroom carries with it old forest lore. Though fairy rings are often seen in groups, circles, or arcs etched into the grass, this one rises alone, a quiet witness to a larger, hidden story unfolding beneath the soil.

Its pale cap, pleated and resilient, is a reminder that even the most fragile-looking beings can endure. Members of the Marasmius genus are known for their ability to dry out and rehydrate, returning to life with just a bit of rain.

The forest, even in stillness, hums with connection. This lone mushroom is never truly alone. It’s tethered by mycelial threads to a larger community, one we can’t see but can sense if we pay close enough attention.

07/20/2025

Cradled in moss and lit by the soft forest glow, the rufous milkcap stands like a sentinel. Its reddish brown cap, dry and sometimes furrowed with age, reflects its name- rufus, meaning red. A member of the milkcap family, it releases a white latex when cut, a signature of the genus Lactarius. Though unassuming at a glance, it holds a quiet presence that invites closer attention.

Often found beneath conifers in acidic soils, this mushroom is among the early signs that autumn is on its way. Its presence suggests a quiet shift in the forest, a whisper of cooler air and golden light just around the corner.

07/06/2025

Its cap is smooth like porcelain, its gills lit like a secret ember. This is amanita bisporigera, the Destroying Angel. Its beauty is haunting. So pure, so still… and entirely lethal. A reminder that in the forest, even light can carry shadow.

07/04/2025

Some forest dwellers bloom bold, others simply glow.
This soft pink-gilled beauty doesn’t ask for attention, it just exists in perfect balance with the light that finds it.
Leaning gently, stretching quietly.
A lesson in presence, not performance.

07/02/2025

Tucked into the moss like a secret flame, this little cap radiates its own soft warmth. Not fire, but life. The kind that glows from within. The kind that doesn’t burn, but beckons. A hush in color. A whisper in form.

06/28/2025

The gills catch the morning light like a paper lantern, glowing softly against the hush of the forest. This mushroom doesn’t ask to be noticed — it simply is. Effortless. Balanced. Whole.

Sometimes, the most beautiful things in the woods are the ones that seem almost to be holding their breath.

06/26/2025

Nestled in a bed of moss, this solitary mushroom feels less like a living thing and more like a punctuation mark in the forest’s unspoken language — a soft period at the end of a long green sentence.

There’s a sense of pause here. Of stillness. Of being watched over by something older than we can name.

The light is gentle, the world is hushed — and this little cap holds it all like a secret.

06/21/2025

A Single Note in the Moss

Like a whispered song from the forest floor, this tiny mushroom stands alone- delicate, upright, and quietly radiant against a dreamy green blur. Sometimes it's the smallest things that carry the most presence.

In a world that rushes past, these little fungal beings ask us to pause. To look closer. To feel the softness of moss, the hush of filtered light, the stillness that lives just beneath the surface of things.

There’s a whole symphony happening down here. You just have to kneel close enough to hear it.

06/18/2025

Three Years. Four Seasons. One Waterfall.
After dozens of visits over the last three years, I’ve finally completed a project close to my heart: photographing the same waterfall through all four seasons.

Each return—whether under a canopy of summer green, a blaze of autumn color, a frozen winter hush, or the bloom of spring—revealed something new. This project taught me patience, presence, and how a single place can hold infinite stories if you keep showing up.

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