This is my Middle Earth.
This is my color version of “Photographing Fairies”

I found a gem in my camera and I want to share it with you.

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I had vertigo the day I went to the Huntington when I first saw through a lensbaby. I sat down near these yellow flowers and fell into a meditation. This is what I saw.

(straight out of the camera through a lensbaby, unaltered)

I love the composition of this. I do my best to see everything through my camera. It is the “decisive moment” a phrase and ideology coined by Cartier-Bresson. I’m more of a classisist following the masters of photography. But I love that art has many angles, and I am always seeing new things.

Before you even step into the Huntington Gardens, you will find a plethora of beautiful flower trees adorning the parking lot. This blossom was high above my reach if I tried to view with my eye to the view finder. So I put it on Live View, and used a Lensbaby for the macro. This is a jpg. All color settings were done in the camera. No Photoshop. Only Lightroom to export to size.