The whole secret to good photography (or art of any kind) is capturing a mood or feeling in a visual context (or auditory if applied to music). This picture, obviously is a place where fairies dwell. The same can be said of good literature, but words are used instead of paint or film. To write good literature, one must live and breath whatever genre one hopes to write within; I would be a very poor author of historical fiction or crime thrillers as I have little interest in such topics. If the author is not interested in the topic, it is well night impossible to convince the reader to be so. I happen to like fairytales for some odd reason, and cannot imagine that there are actually people out there who don't believe in fairies or at least agree that they might exist, somewhere or somewhen. But there are and I feel sorry for them (while they pity my rather childish affectations or wonder about my sanity). I would think that life would be rather dull (and pointless) if one did not believe in something beyond this everyday, ho hum modern existence we call Western Civilization. Perhaps that is why fantasy and science fiction books/movies/games are so popular, people were made to believe in something bigger than themselves; this something is the inspiration for all our best art and literature, without it there is no meaning or purpose in anything, most especially the fine arts. Art cannot have a soul if man does not. That is why one must believe in fairies.
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