Perceptive Light

Canon 5D f9 1/160 ISO200 Canon EF24-105mm IS

Olympus PEN EP-2 f8 1/20s ISO200 Canon FD 50mm Macro

Canon 5D f3.2 1400s ISO 200 EF100mm Macro

Plympus Pen EP-2 f8 1/5s ISO100 17-42mm

Olympus Pen EP-2  f6.3  2.5s ISI160

This Queensland box tree has been in the Midland Railway car park  for as long as I can remember. Its huge root bulb has been paved over on numerous ocassions so much so the paving has grown up and around with the tree. Two weeks the tree was cut down and the area was paved over…

Olympus Pen EP-2  f8 3.2s ISO100 17-42mm

Olympus Pen EP-2 f11 1/200s ISO100 14-42mm

Olympus Pen EP-2 f5.6 1/125s ISO100 17-42mm

An other little insectivorous plant again small insects get caught on the sticky fine tenticled leaves and are then aborbed into the plant as food…

Olympus Pen EP-2 f11  1/6s ISO125 Lens: Canon FD 50mm 3.5mm Macro
This tiny West Australian native climber has some very unusual characteristics what can be seen as round flower like objects are infact the plants leaves. These ‘leaves’ have hair like tubes that radiate from the disk they emmit a sticky substance that glistens in sunlight and attracts insects. The insects become stuck to the leaves and are then absorbed by the leaves as nutrition the flowers come later… TBC

Canon 5D f5.6  1/10s ISO100 EF100mm 2.8L Macro