It’s a good thing I’m in design and not product photography because I think this photo might suck. But I enjoyed the setup! I’ve been wanting to make a terrarium recently, I love having little living things around my house that require little upkeep. I specifically chose the patterned glass for the terrarium because I wanted it to diffuse, or move, some of the warm light from the lamp for this photo. I use this antioxidant serum by Caudalíe. Caudalíe’s selling point is that they use natural antioxidants, usually derived from wine grapes. I didn’t want to use grapes because that felt kind of on-the-nose. Instead I chose a natural, living setting and added shells, coral and an Orthoceras fossil in as a nod to something I learned recently: the region of Chardonnay used covered by ocean, and the fossilized shells in the soil are what gives many regional Chardonnay grapes their clean minerality.