Seeing 2011 (#107)

For your consideration: a brilliantly complex masterpiece of nature, at once glorious and fragile in its exalted homage to the Sun.

Photographed using a tripod, to allow for the depth of a f/22 aperture, in early morning direct daylight.

Having taken in a re-run of Close Encounters of the Third Kind this evening, it occurs to me that if this delicate and short-lived organism emerged as a 10-foot tall extraterrestrial from an alien craft our reaction to it would be worlds removed from the peaceful pleasure it evokes in its normal earthly niche.

Red Spindly Flower, #1061

© 2011 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.

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Details: April 8, 2011; Canon 20D; f/22 @ 1.3 sec; —2/3 EV; ISO 100; Canon EF f/2.8 100mm Macro USM

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