Day Twenty-Three

I'm taking full advantage of these beautiful sunny days to play with shadows, contrast, and reflection.

In today's series...
A small bowl with an interesting shape created by shadows, the shadow and reflection from a glass of water on a metal table, the inside of a glass of seltzer water, cinnamon sticks, an almond inside a small metal bowl, and a small white bowl on a kids food mat.

My favorite of the series is the seltzer water. I feel like a kid in a science class fascinated by all the bubbles. It's fun and the glass in the light creates such great reflection.

Day Twenty-Two

In today's series...
A sunny day brings me to a happy place of shadows, light, and great contrast! An iPad, a toy Batman, a recipe box, an orange juice container, animal crackers, and Brillo pads.

Today's favorite are the animal crackers because they encompass the best of everything I enjoy about this project. They are transformed (almost resembling an ancient cave drawing), there is great light, and inverting the contrast in Photoshop adds a fun dynamic.

Enjoy!

Day Seventeen

In today's series (stark contrast seems to be the theme)...

A peek through the door at a tree outside, a plastic cd case on a black desk, shadows on a wall, the ceiling in the stairway, a kids food mat, and the reflection of a window on that same kids mat.

Someone asked me if I was going for abstract. I stopped for a second to think, realizing they were completely right. The thing is, I didn't set out to transform normal everyday things into beautiful abstract forms, somehow my eyes, brain, and whatever else is involved is just attracted to it. I was recently looking at some amazing work by some amazing photographers through an online portfolio site, and found myself entranced by architectural images. And I don't mean pretty pictures of a building that you'd see in an architectural magazine. They were more like abstract works of art that used unique perspectives and angles, dramatic contrasts of colors and light, and they were cropped in daring ways. It somehow makes my brain feel good to look at those kinds of images. So I guess I'm more a fan of the abstract than I realized. Will be interesting to see which way it goes as this project progresses.

My favorite of the day...the cd case, because it ended up looking like an eclipse. Talk about abstract.

Enjoy!