This is an example of a local shelf fungus. Having found it I started looking up when is th best time to find these, and surprise, surprise its autumn and winter, so I'm just catching the tail end of it, but fortunately autumn and winter will come again.
Shelf fungi , also called Bracket Fungi, consist of shelf bodies called conks and has no stem, but grows directly out of the wood. They are found on trees and tree stumps. Shelf fungi are actually quite hardy fungus as these things go and the coloured rings as shown above are in some species age rings just like one would find on trees. Unfortunately I couldn't find out for sure which on the thousands of different ones this one is, so I'm going to have to assume its true for this one too.
The photo was taken hand held with an fstop of 2.2 to get the shallow depth of field. My camera can't do full macro, though I could get better closeups than this, this one shows the context of the fungus better. I have adjusted the levels a bit to get better saturation and cropped it a little, but otherwise not much pp was done.
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