The secrets of slicing and dicing

The power went out to our neighborhood last weekend. Several hours later, when there was still no electricity- and no computer! - I decided to bide my time by doing some photography. I didn’t want to open the door to go outside to shoot, for fear of the cold winter air entering our already slowly cooling house.

 

So I looked for things to shoot indoors. I already exhausted the tool room (see previous images) – the last remaining place in the house where I haven’t done any photography. So what else could I shoot?

 

I felt like I had to get creative, to try to see things in my home with a new eye. This turned out to be a bit of a challenge. In one of my acts of, shall we say, mild desperation, I picked up a thin plastic cutting board in the kitchen, held it up against the glass door leading out to the deck, and snapped a shot.

 

The raw image was rather unimpressive, but with the help of Photoshop, I was able to draw out the hidden beauty that exists in these so-called “everyday, ordinary objects.”

 

That’s one thing I really like about digital photography. It helps you see what otherwise might be invisible.

 

Done