a picture paints a thousand words

When I started out in photography, there was always a concept which confused me.  And that was that your pictures should "tell a story".  It took me a while to work out that a "story" in this case didn't necessarily mean chapter and verse, but something much more simple.

Take today's image for example.  It was a simple macro shot but there is so much going on that it can't fail to tell its story.

You have the spider eating its lunch.  You have another poor victim already cocooned on the bottom left of the scene and another trapped and still fighting for its life further up.  And then, right at the top right hand corner there is another tiny fly.  Is it trapped?  has it somehow managed to escape?  We'll never know but it's amazing isn't it how this simple snapshot in time can tell us so much and leave us wondering what happened.

Too many words!  Here's the image:

Fujifilm X-H2, Micro-Nikkor 105mm f2.8G, Fringer Nikon F to Fujifilm X adapter
1/60th of a second at f5,6, ISO 400
handheld