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21st Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Spring meditation moment

This photo is just a captured moment: last year’s lotus fruit in lake water, by which dry oak leaf floats, light blur of dry blade of grass, caught in the frame. But at that moment I felt it like a symbolic message, where the lotus fruit is a symbol of peace and help, the leaf is a symbol of passing troubles, and the light blur is like insight.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 04.2023
Date Uploaded: 11.2023
Photo Location: Russia
Camera: NIKON D5600
Copyright: © Tatiana Parilova