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Tuesday, 2 September 2014

CHEATING

I know this is cheating. I know this isn't a proper post. But I've fallen in love with a fly.

Black fly with stiff, spiky hairs on its back and big brown eyes
A little less than a centimetre long. Photo taken September 2nd 2014

I don't know what kind it is. Just that he (he?) is the pantomime villain. Pure evil to be hissed at and hated and applauded and wanted-to-see-agained. The star of the show. What character!

It's the great thing about cameras. If I hadn't taken this photo, if I hadn't cropped it and enlarged it almost to extinction, I wouldn't have noticed his stand up prickles and strange feet. All I would have remembered would have been his big brown eyes.

Dear Fly,
If you are a 'she' I apologise. But I doubt you noticed me or observed me long enough to register my gender.

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3 comments:

  1. Gardens at Waters East3 September 2014 at 17:41

    Lucy, I often have the same experience. I take a photo, go inside to crop a section of a flower - and I find some interesting "bug" that I had not seen while photographing. Love it. So easy to miss the "small" parts of life. Jack

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  2. Urban Girl6 September 2014 at 18:03

    oh wow - what an incredible photo! I understand your love! : )

    - Kif

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  3. Anonymous7 September 2014 at 09:38

    Love those wicked spiky black hairs! Very alien...
    All the best :)

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