I take a lot of pictures for work, so many that most of the time I really don't look at them. There's a very short window of time I can send them off to the PR person to post on all our social media pages. Sometimes I add a tag line or the story behind it if there's time. Things sell so fast that most of the time I can't get a picture of it. I have to go in to the store two hours early if I'm going to do a big display change just so I can get the picture taken before everything sells.
This photo was interesting because I didn't notice the ceiling lighting going into the flowers. There's no photo editing done at all, even if I knew how to do it I don't have the time to fuss with editing. I was wondering why my PR person picked this photo to add to the website, so I took a closer look. About an hour later this plant sold.
Flat Fish Paper Arts was born many years ago when blogging first started. My family did a lot of camping and diving along the California coast. California halibut are huge fish that start out as any normal fish. As they age, one eye will start to move to the other side and the halibut will become flat so it can lay on the bottom of the ocean with both eyes facing up.
I always like the idea that we all start out the same but life experiences slowly changes us. In my case, my creative talents went the way of paper arts. Flatfish are always looking up when they mature and as with any artist, we see inspiration in everything around us - always looking up.
Evan and her flatfish
Years ago a local dive shop had a photo of a diver who caught a halibut so big he had to throw it over his jeep to take the picture. Our little spoof with our daughter sitting in her toy jeep with dad's halibut on the hood. 1987
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