Heartbeat Postcard

I don't own a fancy camera; but from time to time I can still do something interesting by playing with tools that are not attached to the camera - lights, magnifying glass... Here I aimed to shoot a picture where the 5x5mm paper folded heart beneath the magnifying glass appears in focus while everything else is blurred with the help of some optical physics. I played with the zoom features in my camera a bit. I could have taken the image up close, but that would not have created the same effect as taking from afar and zooming in. I had to position the camera in the right distance, meanwhile having the lens within the camera in the right position to get what I wanted. Admittedly though I did blur the background more in photoshop, but the cosmo like effect (the heartbeat) inside the magnifying glass is real. Feel free to visit my personal website: Copyright notice: © Mui-Ling Teh. All rights reserved. My art and writing do not belong to the public domain. Materials may not be reproduced, uploaded, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, copied, edited or published in any form or by any means without my permission.