This is my favourite image of all my film. I rushed to do it as I was working through lunch (I'd much prefer to have a 3 hour photography session than 2 hours as I feel we don't have enough time), and did not set the exposure long enough. I have every intention of developing an improvement of this photo, and to develop more from this particular film.
For this particular image, I gathered as many fallen apples as I could find. When I had a few dozen, I selected one that had barely any damage, one with a little bruising, one with a little decomposition, and one that had nearly decomposed completely. I set them in a row and awaited the sun to set just enough to allow the shadowing in the decomposing apples to show depth in the apples.
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.
