an elegant stiff

For days this fly sat on a black cardboard that shields stray light from the computer screen and lit in the evening by a tungsten lamp; it appeared to be an adult mayfly acc to wikipaedia and it has a life span from 30 minutes to at most a day - whence the popular name day-fly and the joke 'what is the ultimate misery? Being a day-fly and not having one's day'; so, I was looking - and you now - at a corpse, admitting, one with an angelic elegance and could as easily have been - as pictured here - a catalogue image of an ancient piece of gold artistry from Persia or Rome.

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Camera:	Canon EOS 450D
Lens:	elmarit 60/2.8 macro

Title:	an elegant stiff
Username:	macdaniel
Uploaded:	4 Aug 2009 - 11:20 PM
Tags:	General
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