Sneaky and through the glass

I had a complicated day today, a Sunday that I'd rather have gone a completely different way. It wasn't bad or a day I'd prefer to forget...it just rolled out a little wobbly and out of shape for various reasons.

I'd planned to spend most of the day researching some things for a thing that's coming up on Wednesday but because life can be complicated and disrespectful of the best laid plans people make I spent absolutely no time researching anything at all. I got into the latter part of the afternoon and didn't feel like researching at all by then (thanks wobbly Sunday) so I ended up having a sneaky play-around with the camera to see what I could get.

I plucked some lavender and a few jonquil flowers from my garden and grabbed a glass cube I re-discovered a little while ago - where the globe of the world that's supposed to sit on it is I do not know - and thought I'd see what I could create by combining the two; flowers and glass cube.

I didn't take many shots today and most of what I took came out bloody terrible, but I managed to get these four and despite being somewhat good-challenged I thought they might be decent enough to share on a post. I was really just experimenting with the cube, was hoping to get some nice light refraction and to learn how focusing the camera through it would look but the light refraction wasn't quite as spectacular as my mind had imagined it. I managed to learn some things though and actually got some good ideas for later down the track. Anyway, here's the shots.

I enjoyed this sneaky photo shoot, I really wasn't in the mood to do that research after the wobbliness that Sunday presented to me and, even though I'm not all that satisfied with these shots, they're passable and the learning experience was worth the effort.

If you've got any comments, don't hesitate to leave them and any tips on shooting through a block of glass will be welcome too.