Below

​He who would search for pearls must dive below.
 - John Dryden

I woke up this morning with an entirely different picture planned for Sinful Sunday today. But then I saw Molly's picture on Instagram and realized that it was the first Sunday of the month so of course there's a prompt. I'm bad about paying attention and planning for photo prompts and usually I would just post what I wanted but this morning I decided to take a different picture.

The prompt was "underneath" and my first thought was me underneath something and my second thought was the camera underneath me.

Not for nothing but an upward shot is incredibly difficult for me to take in any kind of flattering or interesting way. I've taken a few that I really like in the past but I didn't want to duplicate this pose and instead wanted to do something different. 

It took forever. I took a million terrible shots. But it was an interesting experiment and once I took this shot, found the right quote and added the "70's Playboy suntan" filter (appropriately named "Hefe," which always reminds me of Hugh Hefner), I kinda liked it. 

I think the quote adds a little cheeky something to the photo, because who doesn't want pearls?

Happy Sunday everyone.