Lomography

les fables de la fontaine by Jonathan Polkest

Around 200 Cicada species have been identified in Australia, many of which go by some witty and imaginative - if perhaps a little unorthodox-names. How about the CHERRY NOSE,BROWN BAKER,RED EYE, and my favourite name THE GREENGROCER, (brilliantly ozzie),GREEN MONDAY, YELLOW MONDAY, WHISKY DRINKER, DOUBLE DRUMMER and BLACK PRINCE - I bet the black prince is bit frightening, much as all Cicadas are lovable and benign to all humans they get converted into din dins by our own brothers and sisters all over this world and of course by predadtors such as ultra waspy wasps with evil stinging spiked bottoms. In France the Cicada is used to represent the folklore of Provence and mediterranean cities, the cicada has represented insouciance, nonchalent attitudes or a worldy indifference to the babble of tittle tattle, since antiquity the fabulist AESOP made a Cicada the hero in a fable called La Cigale et la Fourmi - the Cicada and the Ant, JEAN de la FONTAINE used this fable in his collection two thousand years after Aesop, in his own work entitled LES FABLES DE LA FONTAINE .His version of the fable is so well known it has become a literary symbol of the genre,