Blending
Red-eared frog (Hylarana erythraea) resting on curled leaf of water lily. The veins of the curled leaf seem to be connected to the fore and hind legs of the frog to form an uninterrupted reticular network. The photographer came repeatedly to this pond of the Santiburi botanical garden in Koh Samui, Thailand, every day for 2 weeks, drawn by the serenity and harmony of the location. The pond was teeming with life, glowing with changing color textures, lights and shadows and shimmering reflections. She was fascinated by the most elegant postures of the red-eared frogs and how they were engaged in a subtle ballet with the unfurling of water lily leaves, playing hide and seek in the curly pads, clinging to leaf edges, straddling unfurled, young leaves and mating on flower stems. The red-eared frogs’ most unusual postures seemed to accompany the slow unfurling of young leaves into lily pads.