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So this photo has no other purpose than to tell a personal story, besides the fact that it eeks in on the perspective challenge. I felt like sharing, please pardon the wordiness. I'm doing it just to compete with Traveller for the longest intro to a photo.
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This photo was taken about 10 minutes before I proposed to the girl in the photo, Magdalena. She's a brilliant biochemist/PharmD, beautiful in every way imaginable, and was terrifying to propose to. The park it was taken in is the gardens around the Oliwa Cathedral, where her parents were married. It was perfect, she had no clue I was going to pop the question. I was a nervous wreck. My thought process was looping, something like:

"Oh my God I can't do this...Yes, I can do this...She's smart and beautiful, what the heck would she want to marry me for?...What if she says no?...Oh my God I can't do this...oh hey, there's a beautiful vanishing point shot right there..."

The bench where I proposed is right down the row from the spot where she was standing. The birds sang, the sun shined, and for once in my life something romantic actually worked out just the way I'd planned. I'd completely and utterly surprised her, and she loved it. We were married at the Oliwa Cathedral in June the next year. So far, we're living happily ever after.