Friday Photo Inspiration: Périgord Black Truffle (Tuber melanosporum) – Simple Photography Tips & Creative Insights - Value emerges from darkness
- Michael Blyth
- Nov 14
- 2 min read
a quiet moment to end the week with inspiration through Photography and Words
“Light doesn't ask permission — it just transforms.”
Truffle - Value emerging from darkness
Friday photo inspiration ; Thoughts around Périgord black truffle (Tuber melanosporum)
Not a simple photography tip as such, but more like life inspiration through Photography and Words—a mix of visual with sometimes meaningful reflections.
A wonderful long weekend in the Netherlands, there and back on Eurostar, surely the best way. A trip to the Rotterdamse Oogstmarkt, and my current infatuation with fungal things, took me to a the Casa Reindeers stall, with, at one large table, a profusion of fungi - more in a later blog - and there was Périgord black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) for sale.
Covid induced porosmia has for me, negatively affected the aroma and flavour of this fine truffle, one of the most expensive in the world, recently quoted at around £900 kilo, but sometimes higher. Nonetheless, there it lay, adding a rich scent to the air.
These truffles are highly prized for their deep, earthy aroma and are usually found in winter months in France, Italy, and Spain.
Facts aside, to me they tell a story of things that have remained hidden as they grow, their value and importance increasing in those dark places. To be found only by those in the know, with the skill to uncover such things.
The similarity with human kind: where many folk feel in darkness, but it is this that produces strength of character. Value emerging from darkness.
Thus the words on the image: "Learn not to fear the dark places.
It’s often where the best things come from,
Like truffles under soil."
Do you know anyone for whom this is true, perhaps you? Let me know, I'd be interested.
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