Alas, the flower was a fraud

[asakiyume]

I should be less credulous.

I noticed in the photo I'd taken the other day that the stalk in the background looked spattered, as if by paint. This morning I went back and looked at the flower again. It's closed up now, and you can clearly see where the paint hit and where it didn't.

Ah well!





ETA: To see what genuine pigmented Queen Anne's Lace looks like, check out this photo by clarentine on Flickr:

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

The real thing is jaw droopingly exquisite. As for the painted one, I still love the serendipity of flower art.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Isn't the real one amazing--like a coloring book, carefully coloring in here, here, and here, but not there.

And yeah, I like the art of the spray painted one, too.