How often do we really look around us at the ordinary and mundane? For my part, I'm often lulled by it. I often don't think to grab my camera unless I'm going someplace, especially someplace outside of my everyday routine. 'Tis a fault, to be sure.
This week something jostled me out of the stupor of the mundane. I discovered, yet again, what a useful exercise looking at the everyday things around us can be. Think something around you, something that's just kind of there every day, is just utterly ordinary and uninteresting? Look again. You may not find something every time, but sometimes there is more there than first meets the daily eye. I always find it useful when I awake to the everyday, even if none of the photographs that result are terribly successful, because it helps to develop one's eye for interesting photos.
So, what is that? What are those shapes? A couple of glass measuring cups on a ledge reflect and refract light from nearby window and are set off from the dark corner beyond. Carefully converting the color digital image to black and white also helps move the image beyond blah into something not quite so ordinary.
Even something as utterly ordinary as the clean dishes sitting in the sink might be worth a second look. It was the play of light on the bottom of these glasses that had captured my attention the other day and sent me for my camera.
I'm always interested in wonderful colors!
Please allow me to sign off with a little friendly challenge and an invitation to my fellow photographers. The challenge: Look out for how the ordinary everyday things around us can make an interesting photograph. The invitation: Feel free to share your own photos, especially those that give a fresh look at the ordinary, in the comments below.