This image was taken in the late afternoon sunlight; it was extremely breezy which caused this thin stalk to be nearly continuously whipped to and fro. These unpredictable and frantic movements, accentuated by my near-macro approach, mandated an extremely fast shutter speed in order to freeze my subject in place.
A beautiful irony is on display here: the steel is strong, solid, inflexible and implacable in its duty as the demarcation of a barrier . . . yet nonetheless proves to be no match for the force of a flimsy organic wisp. Of course a question goes begging: what possessed the plant to force its way between the post and wire in the first place? Hardly the path of least resistance. Perhaps a better title for this simple study should be Stubbornness.
The Fencing Match, #5827
(c)2010 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.
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Details: June 2, 2007; Canon 20D; f/9 @ 1/800 sec; -2/3 EV; ISO 800; 64mm.
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