It was starting to drizzle as we queued up for our train, but no one was complaining about the weather. This time of year, rain is a welcome visitor. It is rain that brings the mushrooms we’re all here to celebrate. When torrential sheets are coming down, it’s hard to be unhappy if you’re a mycophile. Because with every drop that hits the forest loam, you can almost feel the mycelium working its magic and sending up those fruiting bodies we’ve all fallen in love with: Golden and White Chanterelles, Yellow Foot, Hedgehogs, Candy Caps, Porcini, Morels, Oyster, Lobster, and hundreds more edible species can be found in...

This is a much more complete version of my 2010 grape harvest tilt-shift time-lapse video. I’ve integrated footage from three different harvests: a dawn harvest at Jim Ball, a dawn harvest at Yorkville Cellars, and a late-night harvest at Claudia Springs. I took about 6000 still images over those three days, and this video represents 3,570 distinct photos. They’ve all been altered in Photoshop to give them the tilt-shift effect (contrast increased, saturation increased, and a lens blur applied). This is still very much a work-in-progress, and you can tell by the glitches in this video. Some little jostles of the camera, some...