pontop wrote:The picture on the front page has been turned 90 degrees. That is a pity - it looks wrong.
Thank you for raising this issue.
As it happens, I discussed a potential rotation with the photographer before doing it, because on this forum we're pretty obsessive about not misrepresenting the subject.
His reply was that "
When the the leaves are fully matured their initial position is vertical like in the original image. As they get older the leaves start to move down horizontally. I'm [sending by email] an image to give you an idea of the overall form of the plant." In the image that he sent, the specimen has roughly 20 leaves still in good condition, in the orientation shown on our front page: horizontal, concave upward. Many of them are drooped even farther than the position shown on the front page.
I'm have very little experience with sundews, so I have no idea how much variation there is between one plant and another. But I'm quite comfortable saying that the orientation shown on the front page does not misrepresent the individual that I was shown as reference.
In the
Administrators Appreciation Gallery entry, the image is preserved in its original orientation, accompanied by the explanation that "
For the front page at http://photomacrography.net, the image was rotated to fit the page format better. The revised orientation still accurately reflects the plant in life, as these parts tip downward as they age."
--Rik