Flesh Fly Tapestries

Art by Mike Ratera with colors by Diego L. Parada, for my short story "Los diarios de la Mosca de la Carne" (Spanish only): https://www.amazon.com/Los-diarios-Mosca-Carne-Spanish-ebook/dp/B01N3W775L *** https://lektu.com/l/andres-abel/los-diarios-de-la-mosca-de-la-carne/6628

It's difficult to try and make flies look appealing, although with this image it was not that difficult to do. Instantaneously, I was drawn to the subject matter as an image... It wasn't about oooh, it's a fly..! It was about there's an image there... and it was appealing. What attracted me to the capture was the piercing red eye upon the shape of the already flowered thistle head and the russet complimentary background colour of the bracken backdrop. There was very little to do in post on this... As autumn moves slowly into winter... it is the flies that are a major body of the insect world which are responsible for the digestion and breakdown of natural matter... These 'flesh flies' as they are called with their distinctiv...

Red eyed and yellow striped flesh fly rubbing it's feet together with a shadow

Civic TV channel 83 cable 12

Long Live the New Flesh

The New Flesh

Flesh Fly Macro Insect Photograph by Stephen Geisel, Love-fi

Inspired by the cult movie Videodrome

Watch out.... or she eats you

Not your average fly! The tricksy bone skipper comes to feast on the marrow in cracked bones. Hey, someone's got to clean things up: Thyreophora cynophila at your service!

Amanita Muscaria Fly Agaric Magic red and white mushroom.