You want yer meta, do you? So here you go. Photog Atomische contributed the above shot to the Gawker photo pool on Flickr, depicting New York Times photog Marilyn K. Yee capturing the bloom on that stinky Brooklyn corpse flower everyone's (well, "everyone's") talking about. After the jump, enjoy Yee's actual vulval photo taken during the session above.

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Gawker Photo Pool [Flickr]
Forget Bees. This Flower Lures Humans. [NYT]
Blooming of Amorphophallus titanum (corpse flower) at BBG [Brooklyn Botanic Garden]