Orienteer Running Amid Giant Mushrooms

Rich amber light floods the riverbank near Nabatieh as a runner dashes forward with a map clutched in one hand. Oversized mushrooms, their caps wide as umbrellas, rise from the damp earth beside ordinary river stones and fallen leaves. The runner's muscles tense, kicking up spray from the brief sun shower that glistens on their skin and the map's paper. Golden hour shadows stretch long across the ground, at the base of the impossible scale of the fungi against the runner's motion. Water droplets rest on the mushroom stems, reflecting the warm sky. at the edge shows a runner's shoe pressing into mud next to a giant cap's gills.