Yet Another Theme

Yesterday evening after thinking about the book “André Kertész: The Polaroids” and the photos I had taken inspired by some of the images in that book, a new theme has come to mind: Refraction

I like this theme for a few reasons:

Fun theme, involving playing with image creation.
Varying sub themes possible within the main theme.
Simple book title.
For a book to be completed in 30 days a simple theme, that allows for studio shooting, may be easier to execute.

My basic idea in this theme is that each image involves refraction in some way. While shooting through a camera lens involves refraction, that doesn’t count. I am thinking of more extreme situations/results. As seen in yesterday’s post there is already the glass brick as example. I have seen some great images created by shooting through water bubbles. Trying to capture the heat waves above a campfire could be a pleasant excuse to head to Algonquin for a weekend. There could be variations on a particular subject by shooting through different coloured mediums. Some cold beer could be involved, and don’t forget a magnifying glasses, stained glass windows, and telescopes.

So this is the latest idea, just adding it to the mental stack of idea still percolating down through my brain. Now if I could just remember what were all those other ideas….