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"what do you want to be when you grow up?" "i don't know, everything? is that an answer? everything." – Bee and PuppyCat

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Rye Donaldson

"what do you want to be when you grow up?" "i don't know, everything? is that an answer? everything." – Bee and PuppyCat

flowers

ryed, May 14, 2023May 31, 2024

1/500 f9 ISO500

This week’s prompt was to tell the story of flowers! This photo was quite spontaneous. I walked out into my backyard to take a photo of a flower, and found there were a ton of California poppies taking over everything. They grew through this chair, and it looked almost post-apocalyptic. My family has a bad habit of never cleaning our yard, and it gets super overgrown like this, but I kind of love how messy it looks. These flowers felt like a bit of a fever dream at first, but I’m very proud of how the photo turned out!

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