My favorite hobby, next to gardening, is photography. And the best investment I ever made for my seed business was a high-quality digital camera with a macro lens. My brother is a professional photographer, and he gave me some great tips, including how to use the 5-in-1 collapsible reflector/diffuser to control the lighting for my pictures. But the most important thing I've learned about photography is how to focus.
When I look through the camera lens, I see only what I want to see. Everything else is blocked from view. I focus on the flower that I'm photographing, not on the surrounding weeds, mulch, or other distracting stuff. (You never knew my garden had weeds in it, did you?) This is the wonderful thing about pictures. They focus your attention on what the photographer wants you to see, making it clear and easy to understand.
One day, as I was photographing a daylily, I realized what I was doing. I was focusing on the most beautiful object in the garden that day and ignoring all the other sloppy details. And I thought, "Isn't that just like life? We choose each day what we want to focus on. We can focus on the good things in life, the flowers, or we can dwell with negativity on the not-so-good things, the weeds."
After many years of photography, I now have a collection of beautiful flower pictures. I got what I focused on. You might say that I used the Secret of the Universe to bring beautiful things into my life by focusing on them. What are you focusing on today?
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