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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Jeremy Roussak on July 16, 2009, 06:25:06 pm

Title: Creeper
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on July 16, 2009, 06:25:06 pm

C&C?

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Jeremy

And Mike, what on earth is it?

Title: Creeper
Post by: byork on July 16, 2009, 08:08:58 pm

Quote from: kikashi

C&C?

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Jeremy

And Mike, what on earth is it?

Jeremy, I guess it depends on where this was taken, but if it was in my part of the world it would probably be a strangler fig. It wraps itself around, then strangles the host tree and grows in it's place. Creepy huh!  , so I guess you've named it well.

Cheers
Brian

Title: Creeper
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on July 16, 2009, 09:55:06 pm

It reminds me of the central sculpture in the Vigeland sculpture park in Oslo, Norway, in which human figures are climbing on each other trying to get to the top. DA delightfully creepy image, Jeremy!

Title: Creeper
Post by: wolfnowl on July 17, 2009, 02:15:23 am

Jeremy:  It's definitely a strangling vine of some sort, although from the image it's pretty hard to tell.  There are three different leaves in the image and it's hard to say which, if any, come from the vine.  'Strangling fig' is a common one in tropical forests.  There are lianas in the tropics as well, and in more temperate climates things like dog strangling vine and oriental bittersweet.  If you want a quick biology lesson, organisms generally have one of five types of relationships with each other: mutualism, commensalism, neutralism, amensalism or parasitism.  With mutualism, both organisms benefit each other.  With commensalism, one is benefited and the other is unaffected. With neutralism neither is affected positively or negatively.  With amensalism one is negatively affected and the other is unaffected.  Parasitism is where one benefits at the expense of the other.  This is a case of parasitism in the plant world.

As to the image, it reminds me of the painting by (can't think of the artist's name) of humans souls being dragged into hell.

Well done!

Mike.

Title: Creeper
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on July 17, 2009, 12:09:27 pm

Quote from: byork

Jeremy, I guess it depends on where this was taken, but if it was in my part of the world it would probably be a strangler fig. It wraps itself around, then strangles the host tree and grows in it's place. Creepy huh!  , so I guess you've named it well.

Thanks, all. The photo was taken in Ireland: Avoca, Co Wicklow.

It was the weird forms of the creeper which attracted me (and particularly my wife) to it: you can see hands, faces, whole bodies. Mike, are you thinking of Hieronymus Bosch?

Jeremy

Title: Creeper
Post by: wolfnowl on July 17, 2009, 06:29:40 pm

Quote from: kikashi

It was the weird forms of the creeper which attracted me (and particularly my wife) to it: you can see hands, faces, whole bodies. Mike, are you thinking of Hieronymus Bosch?

That's the one!

Mike.