Lips, Stick & Die
This was taken way back in May during a visit to the Royal Horticultural Society’s main garden at Wisley, in their tropical house. I was using a vintage lens, the Flektogon 2.4/35.
I have no idea what it is but if I were a fly I would be very suspicious. To my mind (and multifaceted eyes) these look like lips on their side… er… seen from the inside, as it were. (Come on, use your imagination and go with the story…). And the plant, hanging from its host looks distinctly carnivorous. One contact you’re stuck and doomed to descend slowly into the pit of enzymes below.
Originally I thought of submitting this tomorrow for the Smile on Saturday’s theme of a flower in a portrait orientation image, as it was one of the very few portrait images I have of flora. But smiling on Saturday seems inconsistent with this title and the forced contemplation of the gruesome end that awaits you here.
So I’ll just post it for Friday Flora today, to cheer you up. I just hope you make it through to tomorrow now...
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope (kind of) that you enjoy the image and that it doesn’t enjoy you. Happy Freitagsblümchen :)
Lips, Stick & Die
This was taken way back in May during a visit to the Royal Horticultural Society’s main garden at Wisley, in their tropical house. I was using a vintage lens, the Flektogon 2.4/35.
I have no idea what it is but if I were a fly I would be very suspicious. To my mind (and multifaceted eyes) these look like lips on their side… er… seen from the inside, as it were. (Come on, use your imagination and go with the story…). And the plant, hanging from its host looks distinctly carnivorous. One contact you’re stuck and doomed to descend slowly into the pit of enzymes below.
Originally I thought of submitting this tomorrow for the Smile on Saturday’s theme of a flower in a portrait orientation image, as it was one of the very few portrait images I have of flora. But smiling on Saturday seems inconsistent with this title and the forced contemplation of the gruesome end that awaits you here.
So I’ll just post it for Friday Flora today, to cheer you up. I just hope you make it through to tomorrow now...
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope (kind of) that you enjoy the image and that it doesn’t enjoy you. Happy Freitagsblümchen :)