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Fighting For Space

In Guangzhou on June 17, 2008 at 10:30 pm


ι Free as a fish

The funny thing about this photo is that I only just saw the fish. Just, meaning five minutes ago, when I was scrolling through my photos to pick this other photo I initially wanted to post up. I didn’t see the fish at all when I was capturing the photo. I was focusing so hard on trying to take a photo that frames the bridge nicely without falling into the water myself. Guess this is a bit like life; sometimes we focus so hard on achieving that one goal and bend ourselves over just to reach it, we forget to enjoy the beautiful surprises that surface in our life to give our life some color.

By the way, this was shot in Bao Mi Yuan in Guangzhou. It’s this huge garden cum house that spreads over a large area and it used to be the home of a Chinese scholar. My imagination ran wild just thinking about what I’d do if I had a home with that much space – and that many lakes.

  1. omg. WHY is that fish so bright?
    is it that bright?

  2. Yes it is really that bright! Which is why I was wondering how I ever missed the fish when looking through the viewfinder. I couldn’t believe I was focusing that much on the bridge that I totally didn’t see the fish.