Life

A poor fly awaits its fate as a spider lowers itself towards it. I took this shortly after I had my new DSLR as a test of how detailed its zoom could be. It took a few shots to get the image perfect. I knew I wanted the spider to be just close enough to the fly to give a feeling of solicitude. I feel what really sells this image is the that the two life forms appear as silhouettes apart from the small amount of transparency through the flies wings and the spiders legs. I named the image Life as it is the perfect example; You don't always win, you don't always lose.