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YELLOW PITCHERPLANT by KAREN WILES
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The gorgeous and somewhat mysterious yellow pitcherplant has nodding flowers and leaves modified as hollow pitchers, which function to passively trap insects, luring them with internal nectar, then digesting them or drowning them with their fluids and their nutrients to later be absorbed by the plant. This particular pitcher plant was created in the Stanley Rehder Carnivorous preserve in Wilmington, North Carolina. The Venus flytrap is also found in Wilmington and the Cape Fear area is the only area in the world to naturally grow the Venus flytrap. It is suspected that a meteor crashed into the Cape Fear area years ago and presented a special growing ground for these phenominal plants.

In the ever changing fast paced technological world we live in, Karen Wiles' images are like a wind blown breath of fresh air. An enchantment where one wants to visit and then remain...She has a special sense of place and vision that is present in her vividly bold works of art, which demonstrate a love and deep appreciation of life. She has quickly become known as "The Photographer With An Artist's Eye," for it is apparent she captures in photography what many may overlook. Wiles' vast background in art enhances the vision needed to place her art within a unique aura of exceptional beauty. "Her fine art remains in one's soul long to remember... the art feels REAL because the artist is real, thus authentic."K.P. of Los Angeles writes. Her...