Green Leaves

How much intervention with nature is too much - Los Angeles Photographer

Spring is one of my favorite seasons for photography. ย One, it comes after a life-less winter. ย Two, it provides the fresh colors that no other seasons can. Realizing that the season will come to an end before we are done enjoying it, I took out my camera and ventured into a garden, so close that it's in my backyard. :-)

My eyes were drawn by a cluster of geranium flowers, scarlet red on the edge and slowly fading into light pink to the center. ย As I pointed my lens and ready to utter out "say cheese", I froze. ย It looks like someone else beat me to it. ย Take a close look at this image and see if you could find any "irregularity":

ยฉJean (Jiaying) Huang

As a human being, equipped with much more power and intelligence (supposedly), I could very easily destroy this little "infestation" and go on with my joy of capturing the intact beauty that nature has to offer. ย But wait, isn't this green incident part of nature? ย If I do what my first instinct tells me to, would I still shamelessly complain that we don't see butterflies anymore in summer?

As you see, I stood there and made the intelligent decision (I think) and the result is what you just saw.

Enjoy, my friend! ย I hope you have a wonderfully natural weekend and I look forward to you sharing it here on Monday.