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Photographer Jackie Lee Young (@jackieleeyoung) can’t get enough of Austin, Texas, the city she calls home. “The creativity and originality alive here is uplifting, and the artist community supports each other,” she says. “The love is real!” When #SXSW rolls around every year, the energy of the festival transforms Austin. “The air gets a little electric for a good three and a half weeks,” Jackie explains. “I love discovering new bands, watching people lose their minds over the popular ones and seeing bands from places unknown that blow your mind. For me, that was Courtney Barnett (@courtneymelba) last year!” Jackie’s favorite local spot to hear live music? Hotel Vegas. “It is always welcoming no matter the show,” she says. “It is where dirty rock and roll should be seen, no doubt about it.”

For Alya Galinovskaya (@mimi_brune), hospitality is a way of life. She works by day in the industry, managing a St. Petersburg hotel, and in her free time, she loves to nest at home, cooking for friends and family while filling every nook with something green. “I will probably never abandon my dream of having a huge garden where I could be spending my entire life digging, planting, growing, tying up and feeding up the flowers,” Alya explains. “Dotting flowers all over my home makes it alive.” For Alya, photography offers unexpected and magical moments: “The whole process of creating a unique microcosm within the photo frame — that’s what gives me goose bumps and leaves no words to describe the feelings.”

#WHPeyetricks asked community members to create optical illusions by playing with perspective and scale in their photos and videos. Each week, we feature some of our favorite submissions from the project, but be sure to check out the rest here.

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