Photography

I originally read this as

I didn't spend much time trying to get decent shoes

And was thinking does OP go out into the woods looking for nice shoes? Because that would be a weird hobby. As I assume you know where to find nice shoes and it’s not in the woods usually. Then these were all you found and you’re like “eh fuck it. I’ll take the picture anyway.”

Was this in the Grand Tetons? Did you find the stash of the foxy shoe bandit?

Super eebie jeebie blursed fleshlight/sock puppet vibes on that first pic.

my glasses were already smeared with sweat by the point I found these

Oof, that sounds terrible. At least you got a shot of these rare shoes, there's something beautiful about things being left here and there, mostly unintentionally, and having nature devour them.

Ah shoe of the woods is an uncommon but sought after fungus, many say after cooking it in a fried or roast kind of scenario that they find it remarkably indistinguishable from taking a bite of the thickest, best cooked shoe of your life

My reaction to these images:

Someone left shoe!

Riiiiiight.

So this is what Barefoot’s been looking for!