Let's take a trip back to Flower & Garden today.
Beauty and the Beast premiered in 1991 as Disney’s 30th animated feature and Belle, the quirky, bookworm princess, probably changed a lot of lives by giving us girls permission to wander through life with our noses unapologetically buried in a book. It ended up making quite a splash, too, as the first animated film ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. And the song “Beauty and the Beast,” written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken and sung by the great Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Potts, deservedly won both an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
Belle & Beast in the France Pavilion has become a festival staple at Flower & Garden. It wouldn’t be spring in EPCOT without some version of them falling in love a stone’s throw from Impressions de France and L’Artisan des Glaces.
I took this with my 50mm opened all the way up to f/1.2 to put the focus on just these two. Upped my shutter speed to 1/2000 second to limit the resulting light, and kept my ISO right at 100. Played with the coloring a bit in edits to bring Belle a little closer to real life.