Location: Pescadero, CA, USA

I composed this image using a variety of flotsam that I found on this remote section of the Californian coast.  A car tire lay perched in the iceplant, which just so happened to be in bloom.  Nearby I discovered a soda bottle that had been blown apart by the waves.  The snout of the bottle was intact, but the remaining plastic below it had been shredded and worn into a shape reminiscent of a flower.  I crammed the “bottle-blossom” into a tear in the sidewall of the car tire, and captured images of all of these strange invading flowers together, selectively lighting the scene with flashlight.  What poppycock.