My Tree has a Fungus

On our way to Ojai we took route 33 and noticed it was still very green for this time of year. We came across this area that was very damp and noticed this tree with large fungus growing from its truck. I thought it looked quite odd but also beautiful at the same time. I used a Canon XTi with the kit lens, 1/160, 10, Evaluative Metering, with an ISO of 200, hand held in RAW format.