Action!

For those of you that don’t know, there is a clever little lens out there that you can purchase that warps and tweaks the perspective of the pictures that it takes. It’s called a Lensbaby and they have a lineup of lenses that give you these effects with varying degrees of control. I spent a night shooting cherry blossoms with one a couple evenings ago and I was really pleased with the results. It’s so easy as a photographer to get caught up in the sharpest, most crisp images available, and for good reason. Most of the time that’s what you want and what you are trying to achieve. This was a wonderful way to step out of that box and to see the beauty in the flaws… the enchanting and magical results that you can get when you purposefully mix a little chaos into your art. Not to mention… I think deep down, we still all like taking pictures of flowers.

Here are a couple of my favorites from the night. (It’s a lot like staring at clouds… they seem to take other forms when you let your imagination wander.)

Fireworks descending