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20th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Artistic
What Is This World's Delight?

This image was inspired by a poem called 'The Flower that Smiles Today' by Percy Shelley. The poem is about how all the world's beauty, hopes, and desires are fleeting. My approach was creating the otherworldly atmosphere that this poem lived within.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 10.2019
Date Uploaded: 11.2022
Photo Location: San Francisco, California, United States of America
Copyright: © Desiree Pfeiffer