this is what I like about a photograph

Beauty, they say, is in the eye of the beholder.  And Thursday, they say, can be just like a Monday in blogland...

Anyway, the point of this midweek image.  Show two people a photograph and they will often see two different things.  This picture illustrates that perfectly I think.

It's of a dead clematis flower in my garden.  I photographed it against a mottled glass jar which is itself in front of my turquoise painted shed.

Now, you may see the dead flower, and that's fine.  But I see an underwater scene, with the dead flower "husk" resembling some multi-tentacled sea creature.  The background of course helps with this illusion and I used a ring light on full power to light it.

Nikon D700, Micro Nikkor 105mm f2.8G
1/6400th of a second at f3.5, ISO 200
Godox ring light
handheld

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