So it was dark when I left the house and nearly-dark when I got home this evening. Meaning I needed an indoor shot. I mentioned my kaleidoscope collection the other day - I have about 30. All are different. Many are true works of art, signed by the artist. They are made from a wide variety of materials - wood, plastic, metal, glass. I love the idea of something that combines both science and art and is meant to picked up, touched, handled, USED - not just looked at from afar. They can be hard to find, but juried art shows are usually a good starting point.
At any rate, tonight, while my ISP was down (3 hours - grr), I grabbed one of my favorite kaleidoscopes and started shooting. It's a black and purple metal column with a gorgeous rainbow-hued marble at one end. Once I loaded the pics to my computer, I realized just how scratched the large hand-blown glass marble was - yuck! Yay for post-processing and GIMP! I had some fun with filters and learned a bit in the process.
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Woah, that is cool! It almost looks like one of those abstract kinetic shots. Love the brilliant colors! Was it moving or still?
ReplyDeleteThanks! It was completely still - you can rotate it with your fingers but it doesn't spin.
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