Buddha

There often is some discrepancy between the picture you take and the picture you want to take. I know that master photographers have the technical prowess to turn their pre-visualizations into reality with fill lights, light meters, the illustrious zone system, etc.

 

I've never cared to carry all of that around physically or mentally. So I'm very thankful that Photoshop can keep me company on those nights I can't sleep. . . and that we can communicate well enough to nurture those pre-visualizations into reality from whatever image I did manage to capture in the moment.

 

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In a little wooden alcove of the Japanese Gardens at the Huntington Garden sits a marble Buddha with a collection of tarnished pennies in his lap. I don't know the relevance of the pennies, but I have a sense of the vigil he keeps.

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