Linda's post on "Photographing (or creating) decay and other imperfections" prompted me to post a wabi-sabi image I took back in September. A tulip had been sitting around my stinkio (I have a lot of such items sitting around, and my wife complains about the resulting stink) for several months, and I'd shot it several times. This one was supposed to emphasize the curve in the stem, and was shot with the blossom end furthest away from the camera and the stem bottom closest, but I think that barely comes across in the image (although the stem does get fatter further down from the blossom, revealing the perspective). So I reoriented it like this. If you examine it very closely, you can see some of the webbing plopped atop the left petal and the right one, as well as a couple of other strands.

Not much digital fancy dancing here, although there was a clamp holding the stem up, and I managed to hide it pretty well.

Intriguing work, Dave! I like how some is sharply defined and some kind of disappears into the brick (such as the arm holding the bird). I like the porcelain look of the young lady's face because it supports the fanciful mood overall. I really like the hint of purple flowers cascading down the wall, and the brick texture.

The only thing I don't care for is the feeling that the butterfly, spider and wasp are too deliberately placed. Removing the wasp and changing the size/shape of the butterfly (the distort tools work great for that) would make me happy