February Challenge: Day 1 - Glass Flower
By Brian Auer • February 2nd, 2008
WEEK 1 = CLEAR
The February Challenge is all about color – you pick a color each week and document those colors. So my first color will be my favorite color… clear. It’s a great color because it takes on the color from the things around it. So it’s every color and no color all at the same time!
Now I realize that many of you may think that clear is not a color, but ask yourself this… what color are your windows? What color are your glass dishes? What color is water (assuming it’s clean)? How about diamonds? My wife hates the fact that I insist clear be my favorite color, so this week is dedicated to her.
This particular image is an abstract of a CLEAR glass candy dish lid positioned on top of a purple DVD-R with an orange background (a shirt). The DVD served to reflect some nice rainbow colors that you can see in the refraction of the CLEAR glass.
So is anybody else joining in with the February Challenge?
To see the rest of my February Challenge photos, check the “Challenge” category here on the blog or visit my Flickr Set.
Brian Auer is a photography enthusiast from San Diego, California. He's also the guy behind the Epic Edits Weblog. As a hobbyist photographer since 2003, his passion has been to constantly improve his photography skill set, to share his own knowledge with others, and to become an integral part of the photographic community.
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Beautiful! I love the idea of putting the DVD behind the CLEAR glass lid to get a rainbow effect. I’ll have to try that sometime. I’ve been throwing around ideas of how to get some cool water shots (that’s an idea for your next CLEAR picture…). Maybe I’ll try the DVD thing too!
Wow that is pretty rad, I love the colors. I didn’t know about the February Challenge, i think I’m to busy to go about it now, but it will definably be inspiring.
I love the way you manipulate the “clear” colors into a work of art. Amazing stuff here.
this is the a great piece of art, i love all the colors and design of this glass piece!