#00359, Bad Hair Day

Minutes after taking Floating Leaves I spotted this parasitic vine grappling the side of it's host tree.

I set my camera up and was about to take the shot when Terry and Katrina (Two English friends I'd met just a couple of days before) happened past.

We talked for a while, and during the conversation I kept one eye on the light. It was semi-overcast, and the combination of occasional direct sunlight and shadows caused by overhanging trees, meant that the photo came and went several times as we chatted.

Eventually my friends made their way upstream to the thermal pools, and I exposed one negative.

This image resisted titling for months. I didn't know what the plant is (still don't) so couldn't use it's name in the title, and I simply could not think of anything else.

Every few days I'd look at the image while it was in the "New work" gallery, but no title presented itself.

Eventually I gave up.

Some time later, while randomly viewing photos, with no particular purpose, I came across the image again. This time a title leapt straight into my mind, Bad Hair Day. Somehow it just seemed appropriate.

As is often the case you don't find something until you stop looking for it.



Litchfield National Park, NT

Technical: Tachihara 5x4 field camera, 210mm, 15s, f64
Keywords: hair leaves parasitic vine host tree english we trees negative plant every some litchfield national park nt odyssey large black white flora lichfield parasite leaf